OUT NOW – Icon’s new catalogue for July-December 2011

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We’re proud to announce to launch of our autumn list today with the unveiling of our new catalogue for the second half of the year.

View it below or click on the image to see in greater detail, and we’ve collected all of the books that feature in the new catalogue together on a page of the site here. If you’d like a copy posted to you, please email us at info@iconbooks.co.uk with your address.

Martin Bell OBE, whose biting, witty and touchingly autobiographical book of ‘light and dark verse’ Icon publish in December this year, once described Icon as ‘a corvette amongst battleships’. It’s a description we’re proud of and we hope that this season’s list again does justice to Martin’s praise.

Popular science has long been a particular strength of Icon’s and one of this catalogue’s highlights is The Epigenetics Revolution, a groundbreaking exploration of this startling new research area, which has major implications for us all. All of the cells in our bodies contain our unique DNA, but how do certain cells develop as muscles, eyes or skin? Nessa Carey both compellingly and lucidly tells the epigenetics story and explains why this science is at the cutting edge of modern biology.

As Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s first Tintin film hits cinema screens this October, we present a comprehensive and highly readable new biography of the philosophical and elusive Tintin creator, Hergé. Raphaël Taylor’s Hergé, the result of years of painstaking research and hours of exclusive interviews, sheds an unprecedented light on both this master of the European bande dessinée and his famous boy detective.

Tina Rosenberg’s Join the Club will change forever how you feel about the term ‘peer pressure’. In her gentle but persuasive style, she identifies a brewing social revolution, showing how, from teen smoking in the USA to the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, peer pressure is changing the way people live, for the better.

Finally and perhaps most excitingly, we are proud to announce a brand new accompanying series to our famous and much-loved Introducing books. Introducing: The Practical Guides take big ideas – such as Neurolinguistic Programming, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotional Intelligence – and show how you can use them to improve your life. Concise, pocket-sized and at a pocket-friendly price, these books extend the reach of the Introducing series while maintaining its fine reputation for making the most challenging ideas from the history of thought accessible to everyone.