"This book is best read on the lavatory"

...and why "all-rounder" and "versatile" are terrible adjectives for wine

During lockdown I wrote a book called “On Claret”. You get chapters serialised here most weeks. I had hoped to publish it. Literary agents liked what I’d written, but they said the idea was unpublishable:

Agent: You say here it’s a wine book to read on the lavatory

Me: Yes, it is

Agent: But that’s very specific. How many people read wine books on the lavat…