Description
| Product ID: | 9781848317840 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Unknown Unknown |
| Subtitle: | Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted |
| Authors: | Author: Mark Forsyth |
| Page Count: | 32 |
| Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Publishing and book trade, Publishing industry & book trade |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Icon Books |
| Publisher Name: | Icon Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-09-04 |
