A few things ...

    - To covet: for sale - houses with literary connections.

    - To be admired: the Penguin English Library (also to be found here).

    - To ban: words! Which would you outlaw?

    - To be judged: the shortlist for the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.

    - To watch: in case you missed it before, and specially for Freda, the short video Birth of a Book.