Icon News & Events
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.
Send us a video about the INTRODUCING series – and get yourself a free book!
Posted on 2011/03/15 in General, tagged as
We’re putting together a video clip promoting our famous illustrated INTRODUCING series – and we want YOU to star in it! We’d like anyone who loves the series to tell us exactly why, on video, in no more than 30 seconds. You might want to answer questions like: What makes INTRODUCING special as far as you’re concerned? What’s the first one you read? Do you have any favourite books, illustrators, particular illustrations or passages? What does hav… Read more »
Icon autumn 2011 catalogue – get yours here!
Posted on 2011/03/14 in General, tagged as
The printed versions of our July – December 2011 catalogue have arrived at Icon Towers today as you can see left. You can view the whole thing via the Latest Catalogue link above, but if you’d like a copy posting to you, please just email us with your address and we’ll get it posted… When you’ve seen what we’re publishing later this year – please tell us what you think on our Facebook page!
