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.
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.
The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted
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The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848317932 |
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| Publisher: | Icon Books, Ltd. UK |
| Publication date: | 09/04/2014 |
| Sold by: | Bookwire |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 32 |
| File size: | 253 KB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |