Icon News & Events

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!

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