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What is Ian Livingstone’s zombie outbreak survival plan?

Posted on 2012/10/03 in General, tagged as

Ian Livingstone was interviewed by Zombies and Toys this week and revealed his personal zombie apocalypse survival plan… ZT: Have you always been a zombie fan and what influences – either from film or books inspired Blood of the Zombies? Livingstone: Everybody loves zombies, me included! And like a lot of people in my industry, I was inspired by zombie films, books and video games. Read more of the review and interview here. Zombies and Toys al… Read more »

The age of Earth… on a clock!

Posted on 2012/10/03 in General, tagged as

The Science Magpie by Simon Flynn is published tomorrow and to celebrate, we have created some fantastic infographics illustrating some of our favourite facts from the book. Geological Time Piece was created especially for the book: ‘Sometimes, discovering when something happened only begins to make sense when it’s seen in relation to other events. This is particularly easy to do if the total time is shown in the form of a clock. The age of Earth… Read more »

O Danny Boyle: Copies of Pandæmonium arrive in the Icon Books office!

Posted on 2012/10/02 in General, tagged as

Pandæmonium 1660-1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers, by Humphrey Jennings and with a foreword by Frank Cottrell Boyce, will be published this Thursday. Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain. Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of hum… Read more »

Martin Bell to appear at Manx Litfest today

Posted on 2012/09/28 in General, tagged as

Martin Bell, author of In Harm’s Way and For Whom the Bell Tolls, will return to the Isle of Man today for Manx LitFest and to continue his work with Unicef. Manx LitFest, which started yesterday, is ‘a coming together of fine literary talent from around the British Isles’. Martin Bell will be discussing his latest books, talking to Isle of Man College sixth-form students about Unicef, and participating in an Evening With… at the Gaiety Theatre… Read more »

Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide – now available as an app!

Posted on 2012/09/21 in General, tagged as

Introducing Chaos is the latest Graphic Guide made into an app, available exclusively through our free Introducing Graphic Guides bookshelf app! To celebrate the release, Introducing Chaos is available at the sale price of just £1.49/$1.99, and existing apps for £1.99/$2.99, through our free Introducing Graphic Guides app, available for iPhone/iPad here. If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Introducing Chaos… Read more »

The Science Magpie is now on NetGalley!

Posted on 2012/09/17 in General, tagged as

The Science Magpie, one of Icon’s key autumn titles, is now available to book reviewers, journalists, librarians, booksellers and bloggers on NetGalley. Skip through time with Darwin’s note on the pros and cons of marriage (a favourite of the Icon office!), take part in an 1858 Cambridge exam, meet the African schoolboy with a scientific puzzle named after him and much more. Browse our catalogue now! Follow Simon Flynn @science_magpie and on Pint… Read more »

‘Pandæmonium was the biggest single inspiration for the Olympics Opening Ceremony’ – Danny Boyle

Posted on 2012/09/14 in General, tagged as

We are excited to announce that Icon will be publishing a new edition of Pandæmonium 1660–1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers, the book which inspired Danny Boyle’s Olympic Opening Ceremony, in October. Danny Boyle says that ‘Pandæmonium was the biggest single inspiration for the Olympics Opening Ceremony … the book is the equivalent of Pepys giving you a guided tour of the birth of electricity and the mechanical ag… Read more »

Giddy up! Britain and Ireland’s Top 100 Racehorses rides in…

Posted on 2012/09/13 in General, tagged as

Published by our Corinthian sports imprint next month, Robin Oakley’s The Top 100 Racehorses of All Time has arrived at the Icon stables this afternoon. Pitting Kauto Star, Nijinsky, Arkle, Desert Orchid, Frankel, Red Rum and many more against each other, Oakley’s highly personal list will provoke debate among racing fans everywhere. Get involved when it’s published on 4th October. Find out more about the book here.

The Science Magpie comes home to roost

Posted on 2012/09/12 in General, tagged as

Simon Flynn’s The Science Magpie, a brilliant miscellany of ‘fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science and its history’ – a favourite of our autumn books around the Icon aviary – has arrived from the printer today, looking resplendent: It’s published on 4th October and whether you need to know the words to the Large Hadron Collider rap, or want to work out how to measure the speed of light in your kitchen, your l… Read more »

The perfect gift for friends and family with enquiring minds: Graphic Guide box sets!