THE UNKNOWN UNKNOWN by Mark Forsyth ( 9781848317840 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
BOOKSHOPS AND THE DELIGHT OF NOT GETTING WHAT YOU WANTED

By:

Mark Forsyth

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1848317840

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9781848317840

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Publisher:

ICON BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

4 September, 2014

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UK ed.

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Description:

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

Synopsis:

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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