The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted

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.

• Publisher: Icon Books
• ISBN: 9781848317840
• Number of pages: 32
• Weight: 1000g
• Dimensions: 50 x 50 x 10 mm