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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 »

Nessa Carey, author of The Epigenetics Revolution, at the Edinburgh International Science Festival

Posted on 2012/02/24 in General, tagged as

Nessa Carey, whose book The Epigenetics Revolution Icon published in paperback earlier this month, will be speaking at the Edinburgh International Science Festival on Friday 6th April. As the Festival website says, ‘Join biologist and author Nessa Carey as she reveals why epigenetics – the study of heritable changes that occur without a change in the DNA sequence, rather through variation in the way our cells read our DNA – is the fastest-moving… Read more »

Valentine’s Day – it’s all Chaucer’s fault, says Etymologicon author Mark Forsyth

Posted on 2012/02/14 in General, tagged as

Mark Forsyth – author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon – explains why it’s medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer that we can all blame for today’s corporate love-fest: See more about Mark’s brilliant book – and his newly-announced next book, The Horologicon – here.

Announcing The Horologicon – the new book from Mark Forsyth, author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon

Posted on 2012/02/08 in General, tagged as

Icon Books are extremely excited to announce the new book from the author of The Etymologicon – the surprise hit which has been a Sunday Times Number One bestseller for two weeks running. The Horologicon follows a day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words. ‘From the moment you wake to the second your head hits the pillow, there’s a cornucopia of hidden words ready for every aspect of your day,’ Mark Forsyth says. ‘Do you t… Read more »

Win a copy of The Dickens Dictionary every day throughout February!

Posted on 2012/02/07 in General, tagged as

The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England’s Greatest Novelist by John Sutherland was published this month. It is Dickens’ 200th birthday today and Waterstones is giving away one copy of The Dickens Dictionary every day throughout February via their Twitter account. All you have to do is retweet their daily Dickens fact to be in with a chance of winning. Here is one of their previously tweeted facts: ‘Dickens adopted ‘Boz’, pronounced ‘Boze’, as a… Read more »

‘A book that would have had Darwin swooning’