Icon News & Events
Inflight Science arrives at Icon HQ
Posted on 2011/03/11 in General, tagged as
Inflight Science, Brian Clegg’s guide to the science you’ll experience on a plane, is published by Icon next month and has arrived here today. We’re biased of course but we think it looks wonderful. See more about it and pre-order your copy here and then you can see whether we were telling the truth or not…
We Love Libraries Video
Posted on 2011/03/10 in General, tagged as
Check out this short video featuring Michael Eavis, Maggie Gee, Kate Mosse and Big Issue founder John Bird made in response to threatened library closures in Somerset. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2011/feb/01/we-love-libraries-video?intcmp=239
Icon’s best female authors
Posted on 2011/03/08 in General, tagged as
Today is International Women’s Day and Jane Goddall, whose book Hope for Animals and Their World is published by Icon, is one of the Guardian’s Top 100 Women in the Science and Medicine category. To celebrate, here are some of our best female authors in areas from mathematics to social history. Keeping with the science theme, Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender takes a long, hard look at the bad science and neurosexism that suggests women can’t… Read more »
Icon’s revamped newsletter
Posted on 2011/03/04 in General, tagged as
To celebrate World Book Day, Icon have launched their revamped newsletter and the first edition went out yesterday. The new mailing will feature upcoming releases and information Icon’s latest Introducing (including Introducing Thatcherism and Slavoj Zizek), as well as competitions. In March, we offered the chance to win the entire Introducing series, worth over £400, and there’ll be more exclusive offers and competitions each month. So you don’t… Read more »
The Girl on the Wall – now in paperback
Posted on 2011/03/04 in General, tagged as
Jean Baggott’s The Girl on the Wall is one of the most inventive and original books Icon have ever published. It’s available now in paperback, and here’s Jean to tell you all about it – in a video viewed more than 6200 times on Youtube already:
‘Despite its virtues – Hoffman is an able and articulate writer and had access to a lot of previously classified documents – the book is badly spoiled by crass anti-Sovietism.’
Posted on 2011/03/02 in General, tagged as
David Hoffman’s The Dead Hand is reviewed – as you may be able to guess from the above quote – in The Morning Star, who take issue with the book’s discussion of the extensive Soviet chemical warfare programme in particular. ‘The Soviet Union is castigated as the embodiment of a “failed ideology” and a system that “reflexively buried the truth”‘ they say (quite rightly, in fact). If you’ve read the book, tell us what you think.
Masha Gessen talks about Perfect Rigour – published tomorrow
Posted on 2011/03/02 in General, tagged as
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman was confirmed to have solved one of the world’s greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincaré conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems, and promised a million dollars to anyone who could find a solution. Perelman posted his… Read more »
OUT NOW – Icon’s new catalogue for July-December 2011
Posted on 2011/03/01 in General, tagged as
We’re proud to announce to launch of our autumn list today with the unveiling of our new catalogue for the second half of the year. View it below or click on the image to see in greater detail, and we’ve collected all of the books that feature in the new catalogue together on a page of the site here. If you’d like a copy posted to you, please email us at info@iconbooks.co.uk with your address. Open publication – Free publishing – More catalogue M… Read more »
‘Grandin tells this exotic tale in a fluent and entertaining fashion’
Posted on 2011/02/25 in General, tagged as
BBC History magazine’s review of Greg Grandin’s Fordlandia – published in paperback in October last year – has just appeared on their website. As the reviewer notes, the book is something of a fable as well as history – ‘the failings of Fordlandia pale in comparison with the current despoliation of the Amazon and its people.’ Read the full review here.
Libraries Gave Us Power
Posted on 2011/02/22 in General, tagged as
Show your support for libraries against the government’s swingeing cuts by helping get the Manic Street Preachers song A Design for Life (of which the first line is ‘Libraries Gave Us Power’) to number one. This follows Manics’ bassist Nicky Wire’s recent piece in the Guardian on the whole sorry debacle. Here’s the Facebook group so get on it!
