Last week The Diary gave well-deserved column inches to those aspiring Dostoyevskys in City PR rooms – certainly, your correspondent can hardly wait until the paperback edition of ‘Southeast Firm Takes On New Trainee’.

However, even the mustard-keen press team at Birkett Long cannot compete with workaholic lawyers, for whom a 14-hour day at the office is just the prelude to a steamy night bent over the desk, enjoying the guilty pleasures of creative writing.