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

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Overview: 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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21913640
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Icon Books
Publication date
September 4, 2014
Language
Eng
Pages
23 pages
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Mark Forsyth is the author of several novels. Originally from the East Coast, they now live in the Midwest with family. In addition to writing, Mark Forsyth enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading way past bedtime. Their work often explores the complexities of everyday life and human relationships.

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