Journos at Emap – now rebranded as the Top Right Group – may have occasionally wondered what happened to erstwhile chief executive David Gilbertson in the two years since he left.

Well, Axegrinder can reveal that Gilbertson, whose weekly emails always perked up the troops on a Friday afternoon, has picked up the typewriter again.

He has written a business self-help book, called ‘Wine Bar Theory’. The blurb publicising the tome says it contains “a theory that can pave your road to success”.