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Crime fiction is the most popular genre across both men and women.

Scotland has its own national crime festival – Bloody Scotland takes place in Stirling in September.

Publisher Faber’s results to April 2016 show fiction sales have increased by 13% and crime sales are up 46%.

Danes borrow most books from libraries in the world, an average of 17 per person per year. William Shakespeare invented the word “hurry”.

In the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, there is one sentence that is a massive 823 words long. It took Tolstoy six years to write War and Peace. One out of every eight letters you read is the letter “e”.

The most expensive book ever purchased was bought by Bill Gates at auction for $30.8 million. The title of the book is Codex Leicester by Leonard da Vinci.