The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted

by Mark Forsyth

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848317840
• ISBN13: 9781848317840
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 4.3"