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The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted

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

The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted

Penned By Mark Forsyth
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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.

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Length 23 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Icon Books
Released September 4, 2014
Identifier (ISBN) 21913640
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