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

by Mark Forsyth

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848317840
Publisher:	Amberley Publishing
Publication date:	09/04/2014
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 4.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mark Forsyth is a blogger and author whose books have made him one of the UK's best-known commentators on words. His book The Etymologicon was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller and was followed by the similarly successful The Horologicon and The Elements of Eloquence. Follow Mark on Twitter @inkyfool