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Julian Baggini on Andrew Marr’s BBC Radio 4 programme Start the Week
Posted on 2012/06/25 in General, tagged as
Julian Baggini, left, co-author of The Shrink and the Sage, was on Andrew Marr’s Radio 4 show Start the Week this morning, talking about ‘the life unlived’ alongside Adam Philips and Helen Dunmore. You can listen to the programme again here and there’s more about The Shrink and the Sage here.
Slavoj Žižek in conversation with Jonathan Derbyshire at Central Saint Martins
Posted on 2012/06/20 in General, tagged as
Icon Books attended the fantastic event, Slavoj Žižek in conversation with Jonathan Derbyshire, hosted by Central Saint Martins and the New Statesmen, last week. Slavoj Žižek was introduced by Christopher Kul-Want, author of Slavoj Žižek: A Graphic Guide. If you missed the event, you can watch the entire recording below. Dazed Digital also posted a writeup of the event, which you can read here, and recommended Christopher Kul-Want and Piero’s Gra… Read more »
New Fighting Fantasy cover revealed!
Posted on 2012/06/18 in General, tagged as
Ian Livingstone, co-creator of the legendary interactive gamebook series Fighting Fantasy – which our children’s imprint Wizard has published for the last ten years – has revealed the cover of the brand new book, Blood of the Zombies, published at the start of August on the series’ 30th anniversary. And here it is! As the official Fighting Fantasy website reports, ‘We are delighted to give the world the first look at the cover of Ian Livingstone’… Read more »
Ball of Confusion by Johnny Ball – out in paperback today!
Posted on 2012/06/07 in General, tagged as
Ball of Confusion: Puzzles, Problems and Perplexing Posers by Johnny Ball is out in paperback today! Ball of Confusion is designed to twist your brain into enjoyable knots of empuzzlement – from puzzles solved in a twinkling of an eye to some that will knit your brow for hours. From how to cheat in a coin toss to why it is that some parts of a high speed train travelling at 125mph are actually going backwards, Ball of Confusion will bend your min… Read more »
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide now available in app-form!
Posted on 2012/06/06 in General, tagged as
We’re excited to announce that Introducing Kant is the latest Graphic Guide made into an app! Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide is available exclusively through our free Introducing Graphic Guides bookshelf app. To celebrate the release, the app is available at the sale price of just £1.49/$1.99. The Introducing Graphic Guide app is available for free on iPhone/iPad and can be downloaded here. In this succinct, witty graphic guide, Kant emerges a… Read more »
‘Single file: confessions of men and women who’ve never met Miss/Mr Right’
Posted on 2012/06/06 in General, tagged as
Kate Monro, author of The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including My Own), has conducted a series of interviews for the Guardian on what it’s like to be single. Kate Monro asks, ‘We’re brought up to believe in happy ever after, but what happens if you never find The One?’. You can read the enlightening interviews over on the Guardian website and you can find out more about The First Time here.
‘My eye was caught by an entertaining series of ebook opera guides by Michael Steen.’ Benedicte Page in the Guardian on Short Guides to a Great Opera
Posted on 2012/06/04 in General, tagged as
Guardian eBook reviewer Benedicte Page gives a mention here to Icon’s first-ever eBook originals series, Michael Steen’s Short Guides to Great Operas, the first titles of which are available now from everywhere that sells eBooks, and for all devices. Each of the ebooks gives the reader a wealth of insider information on the musical masterpiece that it covers, from the composer’s background and influences to the critical reception the first perfor… Read more »
The Gold Mine Effect goes to print
Posted on 2012/05/29 in General, tagged as
Rasmus Ankersen’s brilliant new first-hand study of talent and high-performance, The Gold Mine Effect, has gone to print this week – it’s published in early July. Here’s Rasmus himself to tell you a bit more about it:
The Guardian on The Shrink and the Sage: a ‘very elegant, high-class self-help book’
Posted on 2012/05/21 in General, tagged as
The Guardian reviewed The Shrink and the Sage: A Guide to Living by Julian Baggini & Antonia Macaro last week. Steven Poole praises the book for asserting that ‘…you can be a “happy pessimist”, or so advises “the shrink” (Macaro, a psychotherapist) in this very elegant, high-class self-help book that aims to be, as “the philosopher” (Baggini) explains, a guide to “thinking about how we should live”‘. The full review can be read here. The Sh… Read more »
Read an extract from Third Man in Havana by Tom Rodwell – published today!
Posted on 2012/05/17 in General, tagged as
Tom Rodwell’s Third Man in Havana: Finding the Heart of Cricket in the World’s Most Unlikely Places, with a foreword by Courtney Walsh, is published today! Third Man in Havana is a wonderfully positive story, revealing that the spirit of cricket is alive and well. You can read an extract from the book below. Third Man in Havana is £14.99 and can be purchased from all good bookshops. You can find out more about it here and watch the book trailer h… Read more »
