“Frankfurt, attended by 300,000 people from 108 countries, is where the inner workings of the publishing industry are laid bare, where traditionally the big deals are done; and where everyone schmoozes with everyone else until five minutes later when they turn round and stab each other in the back. And this year, at least, everyone’s been unanimous about which back to stab: the dying corpse of what was once the biggest and one of the most prestigious literary agencies in Britain, PFD.”