Those around the borders to come home for the publication (4)
I believe the answer is:
tome
'the publication' is the definition.
(tome is a kind of publication)
'those around the borders to come home for' is the wordplay.
'around' says to take the centre.
'borders' indicates taking the first letters (I've seen 'border' mean this).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'come' becomes 'me' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'home for' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters are homed by others).
The middle of 'those' is 'o'.
The initial letter of 'the' is 't'.
't'+'me'='tme'
'o' put into 'tme' is 'TOME'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tome that I've seen before include "Heavy volume" , "Large heavy book" , "A hefty book" , "Large, weighty book" , "Big book" .)