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

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.


Author:

  • Mark Forsyth

Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • 18 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Culture
  • Literature

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