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From Tony Blair and Iraq to the phone-hacking scandal, celebrate National Poetry Day with Martin Bell
Posted on 2013/10/03 in General, tagged as martin bell
It’s National Poetry Day today! Now, we’re not necessarily known for publishing poetry, but Martin Bell’s For Whom The Bell Tolls is a little different. Martin Bell OBE has been many things – an icon of BBC war reporting, Britain’s first independent MP for 50 years, a UNICEF ambassador, and ‘the man in the white suit’ – a tireless campaigner for honesty and accountability in politics. But as For Whom the Bell Tolls reveals, he’s also a poet of li… Read more »
Blackwells’ competition to visit ISIS at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and see a particle accelerator up close ends soon!
Posted on 2013/09/23 in General, tagged as introducing
Have you ever wanted to see a particle accelerator up close? Your chance is coming to an end! Our competition to visit ISIS at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and see a particle accelerator closes on Thursday 26th September. You and a friend could soon be visiting ISIS, a world-leading centre for research in the physical and life sciences at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. You will get to see particle accelerator up close at… Read more »
Read extracts from The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton – out now!
Posted on 2013/09/13 in General, tagged as
The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton – And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press, by Jeremy Clay, was published last month. It’s a wonderful collection of Victorian stories taken from newspaper archives in the British Library, all carefully selected and compiled into one book for your amusement! Head over the Daily Mail website where you’ll find extracts taken from the book, from the lady who was tickled into insanity by her husband, to the b… Read more »
Visit your local bookshop this Saturday and take part in Books Are My Bag!
Posted on 2013/09/11 in General, tagged as
Books Are My Bag is the biggest ever campaign for bookshops, launching with a Big Bookshop Party on Saturday 14th September. We value bookshops and the enthusiasm of booksellers highly because without them, it’d be much harder for us to get our books seen! According to Books Are My Bag, ‘56% of all book buying decisions are made by consumers in a bookshop and high street bookshops (both chains and independents) still account for almost 40% of boo… Read more »
Browse our spring 2014 catalogue!
Posted on 2013/09/06 in General, tagged as
It’s a busy time of year for Icon Books, but the sales conference is over, our lovely sales reps have been provided with a wealth of material on our upcoming titles and are getting ready to sell them in, and the latest catalogue has been printed – which we’d love to share with you! We are excited to be publishing Graham Allcott’s How to Be a Productivity Ninja, a guide to getting stuff done, and Victoria Williamson’s You Are the Music, a unique e… Read more »
Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender is shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing 2013
Posted on 2013/09/05 in General, tagged as
It has been announced that Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender has been shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing! The winner of the £25,000 literary prize will be announced on 24th September. Delusions of Gender is among fantastic company, with Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili (Penguin); Sufficient Grace by Amy Espeseth (Scribe); Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret (Chatto & Windus); The Old Ways:… Read more »
Win an exclusive trip to ISIS at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and see a particle accelerator up close!
Posted on 2013/08/30 in Competitions, tagged as introducing
As Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide by Tom Whyntie & Oliver Pugh is published next month, we have partnered with Blackwell’s and ISIS to offer a unique prize: the chance to see a particle accelerator up close! You will get to see particle accelerator at the STFC’s ISIS neutron and muon source. We are also offering Blackwell’s gift vouchers (£100 & £20) to two runners up! Head over to blackwell.co.uk/particle to enter and to find out more… Read more »
Win an exclusive trip to ISIS at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and see a particle accelerator up close!
Posted on 2013/08/27 in General, tagged as
As Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide by Tom Whyntie & Oliver Pugh is published next month, we have partnered with Blackwell’s and ISIS to offer a unique prize: the chance to see a particle accelerator up close! You will get to see particle accelerator at the STFC’s ISIS neutron and muon source. We are also offering Blackwell’s gift vouchers (£100 & £20) to two runners up! Head over to blackwell.co.uk/particle to enter and to find out more… Read more »
Get 30% off selected Icon titles in Kobo’s ‘Best of Summer Reads’!
Posted on 2013/08/24 in General, tagged as
If you’re planning to stock up on eBooks to get stuck into over this Bank Holiday, you’ll be pleased to hear that you can get 30% off selected titles from Kobo over the weekend, using the code GET30NOW. You’ll find two brilliant Practical Guides: Getting the Job You Want and Assertiveness as well as recent bestsellers including James Davies’ controversial book, Cracked, and Gretchen Reynolds’ The First 20 Minutes, plus discover the wonderful worl… Read more »
A Magpie arrives in the Icon Books office!
Posted on 2013/08/12 in New Books, tagged as
Copies of The Antiques Magpie: A Fascinating Compendium of Absorbing History, Stories, Facts and Anecdotes from the World of Antiques, published 5th September, arrived into the Icon Books office last week. With Antiques Roadshow regular Marc Allum as your guide, go in search of stolen masterpieces, explore the first museums, learn the secrets of the forgers, brush up on your auction technique, and much more. You can read more about The Antiques M… Read more »
