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Shakespeare on Toast author Ben Crystal on Shakespearean pronunciation
Posted on 2012/03/15 in General, tagged as
Ben Crystal, author of Shakespeare on Toast, has overseen an audio guide, released by the British Library, on how Shakespeare’s work would have sounded in its original pronunciation. Ben Crystal picked out the authors and directed their performances. He says, ‘It is, in short, Shakespeare as you’ve never heard him before.’ Listen to Ben himself reciting and performing Sonnet 116: Go here to read the full Telegraph article and here to read about… Read more »
Martin Bell and John Sutherland at the upcoming Oxford Literary Festival
Posted on 2012/03/13 in General, tagged as
Martin Bell, author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, and John Sutherland, author of The Dickens Dictionary, will be speaking at the forthcoming The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. Martin Bell will be talking about, and reciting poetry from, his book For Whom the Bell Tolls on Saturday 24th March. Bell’s poems oscillate between trenchant satire and touching honesty with often poignant autobiography spiced with gentle humour. He presents poems on… Read more »
Announcing Icon Books’ July – December catalogue!
Posted on 2012/03/13 in General, tagged as
We’re extremely excited to announce our new catalogue, covering books published from July to December this year. Alongside the eagerly awaited new book from Mark ‘Etymologicon’ Forsyth – The Horologicon – other gems of our autumn list include Stalin’s General, a brilliant new biography of Marshal Georgi Zhukov; Simon Flynn’s The Science Magpie; the first book in English from the bestselling Danish ‘high performance anthropologist’ Rasmus Ankersen… Read more »
‘Switek’s narrative is sweeping and fast-paced, and he has a knack for communicating difficult scientific ideas to a lay audience.’
Posted on 2012/03/12 in General, tagged as
The Independent has reviewed Written in Stone: The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth by Brian Switek, describing it as ‘enthralling’. Darwin’s theory was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms were nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of ‘transitional fossils’ was hotly debated. However, during the past three decades fossils of w… Read more »
Mark Forsyth – on BBC Radio 4 Today this morning – literally…
Posted on 2012/03/12 in General, tagged as
Etymologicon author and word-guru Mark Forsyth – left – was on BBC Radio 4 this morning discussing with John Humphreys and writer and comedian Paul Parry the mis- and over-use of the word ‘literally’. Listen again here and see more about Mark’s bestselling book here.
Icon’s Andrew Furlow wins IPG Young Independent Publisher of the Year Award!
Posted on 2012/03/09 in General, tagged as
Andrew Furlow – Icon’s Sales and Marketing Director – celebrated last night after becoming the first ever winner of the IPG (Independent Publishers Guild) Young Independent Publisher of the Year award. Andrew received his award during the Gala Dinner at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire on Thursday, staged as part of the IPG’s 50th Annual Conference. ‘Andrew Furlow is the inaugural winner of this award, designed to encourage emerging talent. He was si… Read more »
Just arrived: The Universe Inside You
Posted on 2012/03/08 in General, tagged as
The Universe Inside You: The Extreme Science of the Human Body from Quantum Physics to the Mysteries of the Human Brain has just arrived in the Icon Books office! In the sequel to his bestselling Inflight Science, Brian Clegg explores mitochondria, in-cell powerhouses which are thought to have once been separate creatures; how your eyes are quantum traps, consuming photons of light from the night sky that have travelled for millions of years; you… Read more »
FREE Introducing Graphic Guides app now available!
Posted on 2012/03/02 in General, tagged as
We are extremely excited to announce that our Introducing Graphic Guide app is now available to download – for free – for iPhone and iPad. Our new bookshelf app enables you to preview ALL of our existing guides and buy them directly from the app, where they’ll be displayed under ‘My Guides’. Go here to download the free app and here to find out more. If you’ve already bought one of the Introducing apps, there’s no need to purchase again – just si… Read more »
Michael Calvin’s Family scores a Kindle Daily Deal at Amazon – download it for just 99p today
Posted on 2012/03/02 in General, tagged as
Michael Calvin’s brilliant account of a year in the life of a proper football club, Family, is Amazon.co.uk’s Kindle Daily Deal today – and so you can download the book for just 99p. But get a move on – it’s today and today only – click here for more. Rob Bagchi of the Guardian recently called Family ‘the latest and most extraordinary fly-on-the-wall account of a football club from its grassroots up,’ while a review in the March issue of When Sat… Read more »
Mark Forsyth on ABC – and on ‘Barracking’
Posted on 2012/02/27 in General, tagged as
Mark Forsyth, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Etymologicon, was interviewed on Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio last week – you can listen it again here. And here he his explaining the origin of the word ‘barracking’ – for which the English have the Aussies and the Ashes to blame, even if the word means the opposite in the UK to what it does down under: Mark’s book is sold by Allen & Unwin in Australia and New Zealand – see m… Read more »
