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.

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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ISBN13: 9781848317840
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 32
Edition:
Publication Date: 24 Sep 2014
Publisher: Icon Books
Publication City, Country: Duxford, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 5(H)x5(L)x1(W)1000
Weight (gm): 1000

Author Biography

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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