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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’
Posted on 2012/02/07 in General, tagged as
The new paperback edition of The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance by Nessa Carey has arrived in the Icon Books office! The Guardian reviewed the hardback edition last year, calling it ‘a book that would have had Darwin swooning’ and insisting ‘anyone seriously interested in who we are and how we function should read this book’. The paperback edition will be published 1s… Read more »
‘A surprise antidote to Dickens ennui … a joyful dance of a book that even the most jaded Dickens reader will relish’
Posted on 2012/02/02 in General, tagged as
Londonist.com are very much enjoying John Sutherland’s The Dickens Dictionary, published today. ‘This is a book built to entertain, but underpinned by a long career of scholarship. Sutherland finds his subject an ‘inexhaustible fund of entertainment,’ and bends that spirit onto his own pages.’ Read the full review here and more about the book here.
The Etymologicon – The Sunday Times Number one bestseller for two weeks running!
Posted on 2012/01/30 in General, tagged as
Mark Forsyth’s now utterly ubiquitous The Etymologicon has been number one on the Sunday Times’ general hardback chart now for two weeks. It’s an incredible achievement for Mark and, we like to think, shows just how popular a brilliantly-written book can be. Congratulations to Mark from all at Icon. If you’ve been holidaying in your underground bunker for the past two months and are not sure what all the fuss is about, see more here…
How much do you really know about Charles Dickens’ dazzling imagination? – The Dickens Dictionary has arrived!
Posted on 2012/01/24 in General, tagged as
The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England’s Greatest Novelist, the wonderful book by John Sutherland,has arrived in the Icon Books office! It’s written for fans old and new, a fascinating tour through Charles Dickens’ novels in the hands of a master critic. Covering America, Bastards, Childhood, Christmas, Empire, Fog, Larks, London, Madness, Murder, Orphans, Pubs, Punishment, Smells, Spontaneous Combustion and Zoo to name but a few – John Suther… Read more »
