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Landing soon: Inflight Science by Brian Clegg
Posted on 2011/12/08 in General, tagged as
Brian Clegg’s brilliant ‘guide to the world from your airplane window’, Inflight Science, has arrived at Icon Terminal 1 in paperback ready for publication in January. Icon’s bestselling title so far in 2011, the book was described as ‘straightforward and easy to grasp, even when Clegg dips into the mind-blowing world of quantum physics’ by the Sunday Times. As you can see left, the book has a fabulous new look for the paperback edition, and it’l… Read more »
Just in: Family by Michael Calvin – a despatch from the frontline of real football
Posted on 2011/12/07 in General, tagged as
Published in January by our sports imprint Corinthian, Family by Michael Calvin is a unflinching report on year in the life with a ‘real’ football club: Millwall FC, as they fight to win promotion and a taste of glory. Forget the glitz and the money of the Premier League – this is the low-down, dirty, true heart of football laid bare like rarely before. There’s more info here and you can read a sample below. It’s published on 5th January.
Win the chance to be in an Introducing book published next year!
Posted on 2011/12/06 in General, tagged as
Can you ‘Introduce’ a subject covered by a title from Icon’s cult Introducing series of graphic guides in 100 characters or less? To enter, tweet your ‘Introduction’ followed by the hashtag #beinabook and this link: http://tinyurl.com/bpal8od. (You can also submit via email to info@iconbooks.co.uk if you aren’t on Twitter). e.g. ‘Introducing Shakespeare: life’s sometimes tragic, sometimes comic, but almost always involves cross-dressing and confu… Read more »
‘A brave and altogether candid collection of verse from one of Britain’s finest news reporters’
Posted on 2011/12/05 in General, tagged as
David Marx reviews Martin Bell’s For Whom the Bell Tolls on his blog. ‘Like music, verse and poetry is one of the few mediums that can connect both immediately and succinctly – which so many of these poems clarify. From ‘Vukovar’ to ‘Holiday in Sarajevo,’ from ‘New Labour’ to ‘Absurdistan,’ For Whom The Bell Tolls is a brave and altogether candid collection of verse from one of Britain’s finest news reporters.’ Read the full review here and more… Read more »
‘The book reads with the pace of a political thriller’
Posted on 2011/12/05 in General, tagged as
A Book of the Year mention for David Hoffman’s outstanding, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dead Hand, published in November in paperback, in the Irish Times. ‘David E. Hoffman bagged a Pulitzer for The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev And The Untold Story Of The Cold War Arms Race (Icon Books, €11.99). The book reads with the pace of a political thriller and includes wonderful insight into the relationship between the Cold War’s two central characters wh… Read more »
Hugh Dennis to read The Etymologicon for BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week from 19th December
Posted on 2011/12/05 in General, tagged as
Mark Forsyth’s The Etymologicon will be BBC Radio4’s Book of the Week in the week before Christmas. The five 15-minute excerpts of the book will be read by comedian Hugh Dennis, left, and will begin at 9.45am on Monday 19th December (and then repeated at 12.30am each day too), with the last piece on 23rd December. The Radio Times features the programme as number 1 in their selection of radio ‘Christmas crackers’ this year in the special bumper Ch… Read more »
‘This year’s must-have stocking filler – the angel on the top of the tree, the satsuma in the sock, the threepenny bit in the plum pudding, the essential addition to the library in the smallest room…’
Posted on 2011/12/03 in General, tagged as
‘… is Mark Forsyth’s The Etymologicon,’ says Ian Samson in the Guardian today, rounding up those ideal books to buy this festive season. ‘The Etymologicon is witty and well researched, and the chapters are short. Who wouldn’t want to read about the derivation of the word “gormless”? Or the relationship between the words “buffalo” and “buff”? All things pass, but amusement abides.’ Read the whole thing here and you can order your essential stock… Read more »
‘It was the nudist beach and the bamboo hut that we lived in next to the sea. It was the tolerance and often the kindness of the people who ran “Camping Antiparos” that I really fell in love with’
Posted on 2011/12/02 in General, tagged as
Kate Monro, author The First Time, revisits the scene of her first time in Greece, 20 years later, in this piece for The Huffington Post. And there’s more about her book here.
‘A perfect Christmas gift for anyone who might be interested in where our words come from’
Posted on 2011/12/02 in General, tagged as
Mark Forsyth’s The Etymologicon is reviewed on the A Common Reader blog today. Tom, who runs the blog, says ‘Mark is one of those lucky bloggers who’s blog has now become a book, The Etymologicon, and I have to say, it makes for a very good read which I’ve been dipping into over the last week.’ You can read the full review here and more about the book here. Mark Forsyth will be a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends with Clive Anderson tomorrow morn… Read more »
Johnny Ball’s Ball of Confusion – the enhanced ebook, only £7.99 now from iTunes…
Posted on 2011/12/01 in General, tagged as
We’re extremely excited to announce the publication of a very special electronic edition of Johnny Ball’s brilliant quiz book, Ball of Confusion. It’s an enhanced edition, available exclusively from Apple via iTunes, complete with video clips in which Johnny explains various of the puzzles in the book. The clips were recorded in Apple’s Covent Garden store at an event there earlier in the year. It’s also ‘signed’ by Johnny at the start. And it’s… Read more »
