1. Don Quixote is the best-selling novel of all time, with over 50 million copies sold.
2. The most expensive book ever purchased – billionaire Bill Gates bought Codex Leicester, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific journals for $30.8 million.
3. In Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Miserables, you can find a sentence that is 823 words long.
4. Charles Dickens believed in the supernatural, and he belonged to something called The Ghost Club
J.K. Rowling is not actually her name – our favourite author who goes by initials, actually doesn’t have a middle name. After a suggestion from her publisher, she chose her grandmother’s name, Kathleen.
Tolstoy owes War and Peace to his wife’s efforts – the 1400-page novel was copied around 7 times by Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia, by hand – that is true love.
