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The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted
Mark Forsyth
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Description for The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted
Paperback. A brilliantly funny and clever exploration of why it's only in a bookshop that you'll find something you never knew you wanted to read, from the author of The Etymologicon, The Horologicon and The Elements of Eloquence Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: JF; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 109 x 147 x 3. Weight in Grams: 24.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848317840
SKU
V9781848317840
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-7
About Mark Forsyth
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
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