Which baddie from a book do you secretly love? Bloomsbury are running a vote to find the nation’s favourite literary villain in a children’s book. His Dark Materials' Mrs. Coulter has made the shortlist: “The head member of the General Oblation Board, Mrs Coulter, along with her cruel monkey daemon, secretly kidnapped children and subjected them to terrible experiments.” Philip Pullman commented, “the most evil character in any story I know is the stepmother (of course) in the Brothers Grimm tale ‘The Juniper Tree’. She makes Mrs Coulter look like Mary Poppins.” Place your vote.