If you build a house and don’t put in at least one of these amazing secret bookshelf passages, you have wasted a beautiful opportunity.

12 famous authors' first author photos.

How to talk like Jane Austen, or, what did you think ‘tittuppy’ meant?

The artist and the critic: 8 famous author/editor relationships.

A bookshelf that doubles as a cat tree, for the unrepentant literary cat lady.