Icon News & Events
‘The most impressive [book] I have yet read on the ending of the Cold War’
Posted on 2011/04/01 in General, tagged as
Waterstones Bookseller Henry Coningsby at their Watford branch has written a fabulous review of David Hoffman’s The Dead Hand on the Waterstones website. ‘It combines the pace of a Tom Clancy thriller with the latest investigative research to show how close, how agonisingly close, we came to Armageddon.’ Read the full piece here – and order your copy while you’re there too if you haven’t already!
Bell tolls for Icon
Posted on 2011/04/01 in General, tagged as
Publishing trade magazine The Bookseller runs a story today about our acquisition of a new title by one of our favourite and best-known authors, Martin Bell, pictured left. His book – For Whom the Bell Tolls – is a collection of often autobiographical light verse. Oscillating between trenchant satire and touching honesty, Bell presents poems on Tony Blair and Iraq, on Radovan Karadzic, the Serbian war criminal whom he met on trial in the Hague, o… Read more »
Alain de Botton heaps praise on Inflight Science in the Mail on Sunday
Posted on 2011/03/30 in General, tagged as
Brian Clegg’s Inflight Science was reviewed by Alain de Botton (left) in the Mail on Sunday over the weekend. ‘We should be grateful for this book from Brian Clegg, an unabashed aircraft geek …’ he says. ‘With this book in hand, we have all we need to set off on our next flight with our eyes open to the sheer wonder of what is involved.’ For a very special offer on the book, visit the homepage of popularscience.co.uk and the book has its own Fa… Read more »
Masha Gessen on RTE’s Pat Kenny show in the next hour
Posted on 2011/03/29 in General, tagged as
Masha Gessen, author of Perfect Rigour and pictured left, will be interviewed on Ireland’s RTE Radio 1 Today with Pat Kenny show this morning. If you’re not in Ireland you can listen live via their website here and there’s more on the show itself here.
‘An eye-spy book for adults’
Posted on 2011/03/28 in General, tagged as
Brian Clegg’s Inflight Science, published on 7th April, was reviewed in The Times on Saturday. ‘Its intention is to inform – fitting into that publishing niche somewhere between hard science and Schott’s Miscellany that was so successfully exploited by books such as The Cloudspotter’s Guide … The great strength of the book is its ability to pull out from the mundane experiences of modern air travel – the contrails and cumulonimbus, the security… Read more »
‘By any standards, Grigori Perelman makes a marvellous subject for a biography…’
Posted on 2011/03/28 in General, tagged as
Masha Gessen’s Perfect Rigour was reviewed by Robin McKie in the Observer yesterday: ‘Perfect Rigour is readable, coherent and enjoyable and we get a distinct image of a man crippled by his inabilities to empathise with or understand other men or women.’ Read the full piece here.
Icon has TWO books shortlisted for the 2011 Best Book of Ideas
Posted on 2011/03/24 in General, tagged as
Six books have been shortlisted for 2011 Best Book of Ideas, and they include Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender and David Shenk’s The Genius in All of Us. The prize – worth £7,500 in 2011 – is awarded to the book published in 2010 which presents new, important and challenging ideas, which is rigorously argued, and which is engaging and accessible. Icon’s MD, Simon Flynn, is quoted on the site’s page: ‘At Icon, we believe in independent thought… Read more »
Bob Wilson to cycle to all Premier League grounds for the Willow Foundation
Posted on 2011/03/22 in General, tagged as
http://www.bobwilsonsoccercycle.com/ Former Arsenal and Scotland goalkeeper and TV presenter Bob Wilson – author of a number of books for Corinthian, Icon’s sports list – is raising money for his Willow Foundation charity by cycling to all 23 Premier League stadiums in 13 days, covering more than 500 miles in the process. Follow his progress and donate money on www.bobwilsonsoccercycle.com
Cordelia Fine LIVE on Mumsnet this Friday
Posted on 2011/03/21 in General, tagged as
Cordelia Fine, author of Delusions of Gender, will be taking part in a live interview with users of parents’ site Mumsnet this Friday, 25th March, at 11am. Click here for more details and to log any questions in advance that you might be interested in having Cordelia answer. Delusions of Gender was discussed on the site last year for the the Mumsnet feminist book club – here’s some discussion about it on the site.
‘Kitty Ferguson’s clear-eyed passion for her subject makes this account of the little we know of Pythagoras’s life approachable and readable’
Posted on 2011/03/21 in General, tagged as
Pythagoras – published in paperback earlier this month – is reviewed in the Independent on Sunday. ‘I wish I’d read this at school when I was grappling with Pythagoras’s theorem: a little background information about the man who believed in the unity of all things, and showed that numbers made the world rational, wouldn’t have gone amiss.’ Read the full piece here.
