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Icon MD Simon Flynn takes a turn at being a bookseller

Posted on 2010/12/17 in General, tagged as

Icon’s Managing Director Simon Flynn recently worked for a day at Lytham independent bookseller Plackitt & Booth as part of the Independent Alliance’s Adopt a CEO day. Here’s his report of the day written up for Bookbrunch, a publishing trade website.

5 Questions with Stephen Fender, co-author of Love Sex Death & Words

Posted on 2010/12/15 in General, tagged as

Stephen Fender, co-author with John Sutherland, of Love, Sex, Death and Words answers five questions about the book on Book Club Live. Read the full piece here.

‘Cordelia Fine’s latest book, “Delusions of Gender”, published in September of this year sets out to robustly challenge “the idea that male and female psychologies are inherently different”. And she challenges it most successfully.’

Posted on 2010/12/13 in General, tagged as

Cordelia Fine’s book is described as a ‘great – and important – read’ on this Irish website.

‘The run-up to the election saw a string of books on intergenerational unfairness…’

Posted on 2010/12/13 in General, tagged as

‘… the best was Jilted Generation by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik,’ said Nick Cohen in the Observer yesterday. ‘They did not confine themselves to education but looked at how children were having their rites of passage to adulthood postponed, and how vast numbers were living with their parents into their 20s. They could not afford exorbitant housing costs, or build a career because they worked in exploitative internships or insecure temporary jobs,… Read more »

‘This is history of the most compelling and eminently readable kind.’

Posted on 2010/12/10 in General, tagged as

Fordlandia was reviewed in the Independent on Sunday recently. ‘It is a story rich with dramatic potential, and the historian Greg Grandin tells it with the skill and verve of a great novelist. Ford emerges as the flawed protagonist: like Conrad’s Lord Jim, the industrialist imagined himself as the benevolent philosopher-king of a tropical realm, convinced that he “could make the world conform to his will”, only to find events spiralling beyond h… Read more »

Is Romance dead? Or the greatest idea mankind has ever had?

Posted on 2010/12/09 in General, tagged as

Listen to John Farndon, in the latest of his podcasts from The World’s Greatest Idea, discuss this very issue and see what you think: The World’s Greatest Idea – John Farndon podcast 4 – Romance by Icon Books

‘The chapter on jobs is possibly the angriest piece of political writing I’ve read of late’

Posted on 2010/12/08 in General, tagged as

Ed Howker and Shiv Malik’s Jilted Generation is included in Daisy Meyland-Smith’s Christmas books roundup for the Centre for Policy Studies. ‘While the authors deserve credit for their restrained use of the word ‘doinked’ in the introduction,’ she says ‘there is no such delicacy in their condemnation of the ‘shaming, condescending, ambition-crushing, contemptuous message’ put forward by the ‘Panel for Professionally Crushing the Dreams of Youth’.… Read more »

Slaughter on a Snowy Morn – paperback arrives at Icon HQ!

Posted on 2010/12/08 in General, tagged as

Colin Evans’ Slaughter in a Snowy Morn is published in paperback in January, and the first copies have just arrived in the office – as you can see, it looks fabulous – the perfect read for those snowy morns in the new year! See more about the book here.

‘What’s the big idea? Well, it certainly isn’t love and marriage’

Posted on 2010/12/07 in General, tagged as

John Farndon is interviewed by the Yorkshire Post for his book, The World’s Greatest Idea, here. And hear John talk about one of the most controversial ideas in his book, Marriage, in the third of his World’s Greatest Idea podcasts here: The World’s Greatest Idea – John Farndon podcast 3 – Marriage by Icon Books

Eileen Magnello on the Joy of Statistics, tonight on BBC4