Icon News & Events
This autumn – a new Tintin film and a new biography of his creator, Hergé!
Posted on 2011/05/18 in General, tagged as
You’ll find it hard to ignore the new film from Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg this autumn – The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn will be hitting cinema screens in late October. Here’s the trailer: Tintin was of course the creation of probably the most famous modern Belgian – the cartoonist known simply as Hergé. Icon are proud to present in October a brand new biography of this master of 20th century comic art from Raphael Tay… Read more »
Love, Sex, Death and Words in the Icon office…
Posted on 2011/05/16 in General, tagged as
Yes, it’s just another decadent Monday afternoon here at Icon HQ … or perhaps not – but copies of the paperback edition John Sutherland and Stephen Fender’s compendium of stories from literary history has arrived, which is almost as exciting… Love, Sex, Death and Words brings together 365 stories from the annals of literary history, which one story for every day of the year. The result is a fantastically rich and lavish tour through the histo… Read more »
Dear parent: why your dyslexic child struggles with reading
Posted on 2011/05/11 in General, tagged as
Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid, has a piece in the Guardian which attempts to explain to parents of dyslexic children what it is that causes them struggle with reading. ‘Not all children with dyslexia have extraordinary talents, but everyone has a unique potential that is being daily whittled away by this lack of understanding [of what dyslexia really is],’ she says. Read the full piece here.
‘Losing our virginity happens to almost all of us, yet it is one of the few aspects of sex that is still very rarely discussed. Until now.’
Posted on 2011/05/09 in General, tagged as
Kate Monro’s The First Time was covered by the Irish Examiner on Saturday. ‘Her book provides an interesting snap-shot of our changing sexual values and history over the past 70 years.’ Read the full piece here, and more about Kate’s book here.
Icon authors Steve Fuller and Ziauddin Sardar at How The Light Gets In Festival
Posted on 2011/05/06 in General, tagged as
Two Icon authors will be taking part in events at HowTheLightGetsIn, the philosophy and music festival at Hay from 26 May – 5 June 2011. Ziauddin Sardar, author of American Dream, Global Nightmare, Why do people hate America? and several Introducing titles including Introducing Islam and Introducing Postmodernism, will be taking part in discussions on the rise of China and India, Islam and conflict and what happens after postmodernity. Steve Full… Read more »
‘Reading Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender has been fascinating as an accompaniment to my pregnancy.’
Posted on 2011/05/06 in General, tagged as
Delusions of Gender is reviewed on Sophia Network, a site taglined ‘wisdom for women in youth work’. ‘The book is biased,’ the reviewer says. ‘It is clearly trying to put forward a case against stances such as Men are from Mars, Women from Venus, but in a society where these views seem to be the accepted norm I found the book a refreshing and challenging read.’ Read the full piece here.
Kate Monro talks about The First Time
Posted on 2011/05/05 in General, tagged as
Kate Monro’s book, The First Time – A groundbreaking and very personal insight into modern sexuality – is published by Icon today. Here Kate explains what the book’s all about:
Icon launches Introducing Ethics – the App – with a very special price offer for one week only!
Posted on 2011/05/04 in General, tagged as
Icon Books announce the publication of the first ever electronic versions of their famous Introducing series of graphic guide books. Developed in association with Eldan Software, the Introducing Ethics iPhone and iPad app is available to buy now on Apple’s App Store and will be available on Android shortly. The app is priced at £2.99 in the UK ($4.99 in the US) and leverages technology from Robot Media SL, whose work includes the Scott Pilgrim an… Read more »
Tales of London virgins – The First Time in the Evening Standard
Posted on 2011/05/04 in General, tagged as
Kate Monro, ‘London’s foremost virgin inquisitor’ and the author of The First Time, published by Icon tomorrow, is interviewed in today’s Evening Standard. ‘In many ways her book is a corrective to the fantasy images we see of guilt-free, pornified sex,’ the article says “I think these stories fill the vacuum. They bring back the reality of sex.”‘ Read the full piece here and more about the book here. Kate’s blog, The Virginity Project, which whi… Read more »
Kate Monro on Women’s Hour
Posted on 2011/05/03 in General, tagged as
Kate Monro, left, author of The First Time, was interviewed on Women’s Hour yesterday about her book which is published this week. Presenter Jenni Murray and Kate talked about virginity loss and how perceptions of it have changed over the years. Listen to the piece again for the next 6 days here. The book was also extracted in The Times on Saturday.
