num_pages: 23
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted
publisher: Icon Books