began in 2001 under the name of O Books; now John Hunt Publishing; publishes 300 titles a year; in 2010 reorganised into number of autonomous imprints operating worldwide in different genres
'[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.'