Icon acquire a shrink – and a sage…

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Icon Books announce the acquisition of The Shrink and the Sage by popular philosopher Julian Baggini and his psychotherapist partner Antonia Macaro.

The book – with the working subtitle A Guide to Modern Dilemmas – springs from the authors’ popular Financial Times Weekend magazine column which has been running since October 2010. The book will greatly build upon the material in the columns, significantly adding to existing ‘dilemmas’ and adding many more. It will be published in May next year.

Icon MD Simon Flynn says: ‘Icon have enjoyed publishing philosophy for many years and we’ve all long been admirers of Julian Baggini’s writing. So it’s hugely exciting – especially in our 20th anniversary year – to be publishing Julian and Antonia’s book, which is such a deft mix of philosophy, psychology and practical advice, with an already-established market from the FT columns. It’s the first self-help manual I for one could actually imagine reading!’

Publishing trade magazine The Bookseller covers the story here, and our full press release can be downloaded here.