The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted

by Mark Forsyth

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Mark Forsyth - author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon - reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a really good bookshop.


Along the way he considers the wisdom of Donald Rumsfeld, naughty French photographs, why Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy would never have met online, and why only a bookshop can give you that precious thing - what you never knew you were looking for.
  • ISBN13 9781848317932
  • Publish Date 4 September 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Icon Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 32
  • Language English