Author recommends boring case of books (7)
I believe the answer is:
burgess
'author' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'recommends boring case of books' is the wordplay.
'recommends' becomes 'urges' ('urge' can be a synonym of 'recommend').
'boring' is an insertion indicator (some letters must 'bore' a hole into other letters).
'case of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (outsides of).
'books' with its centre removed is 'bs'.
'urges' placed within 'bs' is 'BURGESS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for burgess that I've seen before include "Anthony --, author" , "Citizen of a borough" , "Old representative" , "was once a bigwig in the borough" , "Guy who spied" .)