Icon News & Events
The Dead Hand goes to print
Posted on 2010/12/20 in General, tagged as
One of the most exciting books to be published by Icon in the spring season next year is David E. Hoffman’s The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2010 and rightly so – it’s a fantastically-paced investigative history of the final decade of the Cold War and the remarkable individuals who worked to bring to a halt the arms race that, even in the 19… Read more »
Another Book of the Year plaudit for Delusions of Gender
Posted on 2010/12/20 in General, tagged as
Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender is included in a round-up from ‘ writers, critics and our readers’ in the Guardian who were asked to name their best book of the year. See the full piece here.
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.
