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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 »
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 »
