Icon News & Events
Martin Bell’s ‘Dodgy Verses’
Posted on 2013/04/08 in General, tagged as
For Whom the Bell Tolls showed another side of one of the most highly regarded names in British television journalism, Martin Bell. Check out his ‘Dodgy Verses’, recorded at the Wenlock Poetry Festival, below! And check out More Dodgy Verses, Yet More Dodgy Verses, and Further Dodgy Verses. Find out more about Martin Bell’s books here.
Etymologicon shortlisted for Independent Booksellers Award
Posted on 2013/04/03 in General, tagged as
Mark Forsyth’s Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon has another laurel for its wreath this morning – the book has been shortlisted for the 2013 Independent Booksellers Award! Mark is in very good company – Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies is on the shortlist too, along with Laurent Binet’s HHhH – a favourite around the Icon office. The winner will be announced at the start of this year’s Independent Booksellers Week on 29th June… Read more »
July 1914 and Cracked are now up on NetGalley!
Posted on 2013/03/19 in General, tagged as
If you are a bookseller, educator, media professional, reviewer or librarian, you can request two brand new upcoming titles: July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin, and Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good by James Davies, on NetGalley. Thanks to pseudo-science and corporate greed, psychiatry is letting us down. Controversial and powerful, Cracked is a shocking indictment of a broken profession. Groundbreaking and powerful,… Read more »
Icon Books is shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year in The Bookseller Awards 2013!
Posted on 2013/03/14 in General, tagged as
We are extremely excited to announce that we have been shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year in The Bookseller Industry Awards! The Bookseller magazine’s yearly awards celebrate the very best of the book trade, from independent publishers to publicity campaigns to national booksellers. You can find out more about The Bookseller Industry Awards and the shortlist here.
Get the Practical Guides eBooks for only £3.49!
Posted on 2013/03/12 in General, tagged as
A selection of our brilliant, easy-to-read Practical Guides eBooks are 30% off on txtr.com – only £3.49 each. Download Introducing Mindfulness for jargon-free tips on how to listen to your body to reduce stress and anxiety, Introducing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to understand your behaviour and how to change negative patterns, and read about why your child develops in the way he or she does, and how you can best create the conditions for… Read more »
Continental Philosophy, Empiricism and Wagner added to the Graphic Guide series!
Posted on 2013/02/27 in General, tagged as
Next month, three Graphic Guides will be added to the series in compact format, including brand new Continental Philosophy. Delve into a commonly overlooked body of thought in Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide, explore the idea that knowledge can only come from sensory experience in Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, and become one of the few that truly understand this classical composer in Wagner: A Graphic Guide. Published 7th March. Head over… Read more »
‘It’s very funny and witty and a little bit cheeky… it’s definitely entertaining’
Posted on 2013/02/26 in General, tagged as
The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth has been reviewed by the lovely Amanda at HeyHeyBooks!. Check out what she has to say about it below. The Horologicon is available now from all good bookshops. Find out more about the book here and read an extract here. Follow our Tumblr to discover some fantastic #lostwords.
View Icon and Corinthian’s new July – December 2013 catalogue
Posted on 2013/02/25 in General, tagged as
Have a browse of the new Icon Books and Corinthian catalogue below, covering books published from July to December this year. We are thrilled to be publishing more history titles this year: July 1914, published on the 99th anniversary of that fatal month, is Sean McMeekin’s powerful, almost forensic history of 30 days when the world allowed a terrorist incident in Sarajevo to descend into the bloodiest, most entrenched conflict the world had yet… Read more »
Announcing The Pinnacle of Parnassus – the erudite and brilliantly funny new book from Mark Forsyth
Posted on 2013/02/25 in General, tagged as
Icon Books is extremely excited to announce the new book from Mark Forsyth, the author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon. The Pinnacle of Parnassus: An Entirely Successful Attempt to Write Three Perfect Sentences is Mark Forsyth’s wry quest to write nothing less than the three most perfect sentences that the English language has ever seen. Readers will be treated to a guided literary clamber up Mount Parnassus, home of the Greek Muses. Alon… Read more »
A pocketful of sunshine arrives in Icon Books HQ!
Posted on 2013/02/22 in General, tagged as
If you have enormous, energy-saving pockets, that is. Project Sunshine: How science can use the sun to fuel and feed the world, by Steve McKevitt and Tony Ryan, has arrived in the office and is all packed up and ready to be sent out to press! ‘This is an important, much needed book. It shows that things can’t go on as they have done: population growth, fossil-fuel burning, greenhouse-gas pollution. But it also explains that they don’t need to. Te… Read more »
