The Unknown Unknown

Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted

Mark Forsyth

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English

Icon Books
04 September 2014

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Society & culture: general; Publishing industry

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.

By: Mark Forsyth
Imprint: Icon Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: UK ed.
Dimensions: Height: 50mm, Width: 50mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 1.000kg
ISBN: 9781848317840
ISBN 10: 1848317840
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 04 September 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

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