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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 »
Win copies of September titles – from obscure English words to fascinating facts plucked from science and the woeful realties of being young in Britain today!
Posted on 2013/08/08 in General, tagged as
We are giving you the chance to win copies of some fantastic upcoming titles that are being published in September! You can win a copy of the fully revised and updated polemic Jilted Generation, The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton – hilarious stories from the Victorian press – as well as the paperback edition of Mark Forsyth’s The Horologicon. We also have a brand new Graphic Guide for you – Particle Physics. Also available to win are two brilliant… Read more »
The Antiques Magpie and The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton are now available on NetGalley!
Posted on 2013/07/30 in General, tagged as
If you are a bookseller, educator, media professional, reviewer or librarian, you can request two exciting upcoming titles on NetGalley: The Antiques Magpie by Marc Allum & The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton by Jeremy Clay. From the mythical artefacts of the ancient world to prized 80s pop memorabilia – and the dedicated collectors who revere these objects – The Antiques Magpie brings together a treasure trove of stories, anecdotes and facts f… Read more »
Come and hear Tom Whyntie talk about particle physics at the British Science Festival in Newcastle!
Posted on 2013/07/26 in General, tagged as
Tom Whyntie, author of Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide, will be answering the question ‘what exactly are we made of?’ at the British Science Festival in Newcastle! Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide, a unique tour through the most astonishing and challenging science being undertaken today, will be published in September, featuring brilliant illustrations by Oliver Pugh. Tom Whyntie will be at the festival on Saturday 7th September, 1:30-2:30pm.… Read more »
Existentialism: A Graphic Guide and Fascism: A Graphic Guide published next month!
Posted on 2013/07/10 in General, tagged as
We have added two Graphic Guides to the series in compact format, published next month! Richard Appignanesi goes on a personal quest of Existentialism in its original state in Introducing Existentialism and Introducing Fascism investigates the four types of Fascism that emerged after the First World War in Italy, Germany, Spain and Japan. Head over to introducingbooks.com to read about the series.
Independent Booksellers’ Week begins today, plus Icon Books’ favourite indies!
Posted on 2013/06/29 in General, tagged as
Independent Booksellers’ Week, a national celebration of independent bookshops, begins today and runs until 6th July 2013! As a fellow indie, we love working with independent bookshops and so you will be able to purchase Mark Forsyth’s The Horologicon in paperback throughout the week, from your local bookshop, before its official publication in September. Icon HQ were also asked to talk about their favourite independent bookshops: Stacey (Sales… Read more »
Follow a live retelling of the cataclysmic month that turned a European conflict into the First World War
Posted on 2013/06/26 in General, tagged as
On 28 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. A little over a month later the world was engulfed in the bloodiest conflict mankind had ever seen. How did such tragedy unfold so quickly? Follow – ‘live’ – the assassination on 28 June to Britain’s final plunge on 4 August, turning European conflict into war. Yesterday, we launched the dramatic live retelling of the month preceding the First World War @countdowntowar, compan… Read more »
Michael Scott’s Who Were the Greeks? begins tomorrow at 9pm!
Posted on 2013/06/26 in General, tagged as
Dr Michael Scott, author of From Democrats to Kings: The Downfall of Athens to the Epic Rise of Alexander the Great, has begun a new project, this time asking Who Were the Greeks?. Who Were the Greeks? begins 27th June at 9pm on BBC Two and continues on 4th July. In this series, Michael Scott asks ‘who were these people who gave us democracy, architecture, philosophy, language, literature and sport?’. Watch the trailer on BBC Two here and read mo… Read more »
Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender longlisted for Warwick Prize for Writing 2013!
Posted on 2013/06/24 in General, tagged as
Delusions of Gender, the vehement attack on the pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes, by Cordelia Fine, has been longlisted for this year’s Warwick Prize for Writing! The Warwick Prize takes place every two years and is awarded to ‘excellent and substantial work’. Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences is ‘impeccably researched and bitingly funny’ (Evening Standard) and ‘a timely warning’ (Guardi… Read more »
