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.
Über den Autor Mark Forsyth
Mark Forsyth, 1977 in London geboren, studierte Literatur und Linguistik an der University of Oxford. Sein besonderes Interesse gilt der Semantik und Worten, die in der Alltagssprache nicht mehr verwendet werden. In seinem Blog »The Inky Fool« teilt er seit 2009 seine Liebe zur Sprache. Er lebt in London.