About Me

So let me tell you a little bit about me. I'm a twenty-something born-and-bred Londoner. After graduating from Cardiff University in English Literature I am trying to carve a career as a literary agent.

I'm not going to bore you with my job but it does identify one of my favourite past-times and the main focus of this blog - reading. Although I read a lot for work, like everyone else I crave holidays where I can finally sit down and attack that novel I bought optimistically from Amazon the independent book store, along with that box-set exercise DVD I just had to have... 

More often than not I try to snatch some precious reading time on my train to and from work. I'm not a quick reader, as some people may assume after a 3 year literature course and 4 years in the publishing world... it can take me ages, especially in the tranquility that is an inner-city train carriage... As a result, for my commuter reads, I tend to pick novels under 450 pages... it sounds a little specific and perhaps a bit limiting but, generally, if it takes longer than 2 weeks to read, I get bored, no matter how good the book is.

I also tend to read books rather than writers and am always up for taking recommendations. I started up my own book club in the hope that it would keep me reading as my unsolicited submissions pile climbs ever higher... needless to say that failed. But the blog is still here.

Other than reading, my passions are (generically) music and film. I am a supporter of good coffee and retail therapy. I'm a keen traveller, although I'm embarrassed to say that is not reflected in the languages I can speak... although I'm trying to improve my French... I'm a big Harry Potter geek, and refuse to be ashamed of it, books and films... and I have been known to watch trashy sci-fi... Hopefully facts such as these are quickly making you realise that this blog is unlikely to be that intellectual a project...