The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted
- ISBN-10
- 184831793X
- ISBN-13
- 9781848317932
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-04
- Publisher
- Icon Books Ltd
- Author
- Mark Forsyth
Description
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.
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