Icon News & Events
The man in the white suit
Posted on 2010/09/20 in General, tagged as
We at Castle Icon were all most amused to see the title of the new ‘Stig-of-Top-Gear-tells-all’ book when it was published by HarperCollins recently. Here’s a clip of the previous owner of that moniker, Martin Bell, talking about A Very British Revolution, his last book, published by Icon in 2009:
Icon’s new catalogue for spring 2011 is here!
Posted on 2010/09/20 in General, tagged as
Click the image below to view more closely and if you’d like a hard copy sent to you, please send us your address… Open publication – Free publishing – More non-fiction
‘From an early age, I was incapable of reading Enid Blyton books (which I adored) without offering up a scathing feminist critique to anyone within earshot: “Oh, yes. Of course the boys go first! In case it’s dangerous.”‘
Posted on 2010/09/20 in General, tagged as
Cordelia Fine on ending the ‘great gender lie’ in the Guardian.
The Best Views from the Boundary
Posted on 2010/09/16 in General, tagged as
The Best Views from the Boundary:Test Match Special’s Greatest Interviews by Peter Baxter has just arrived back from the printer. Collecting together the best of the Saturday lunchtime interviews from BBC Radio’s Test Match Special over the years, it features cricketing conversations with luminaries from David Cameron and John Major to Lily Allen and Daniel Radcliffe. It’s published by our sports imprint, Corinthian, next month. See more here.
‘Delusions of Gender includes extensive research and sharp wit’
Posted on 2010/09/15 in General, tagged as
Cordelia Fine’s book is reviewed in the Metro today. ‘This is merely one bullet in a well-stocked armoury that includes extensive research, sharp wit and a probing intelligence, and which refuses to be satisfied with the delusional myth-making that often passes for popular science.’ Read more here.
‘Forget Venus and Mars. Men and women DO think alike’
Posted on 2010/09/13 in General, tagged as
More on the debate started by Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender, this time in today’s Daily Mail. ‘Some days the opposite sex seems so different, you can almost believe that they come from another planet.’ ‘Indeed, the theory that we are all hard-wired by our gender has proved so popular that a book on the subject, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, became an international best-seller.’ ‘Now a leading neuroscientist says women’s brain pow… Read more »
Delusions of Gender controversy in the Guardian
Posted on 2010/09/11 in General, tagged as
The Guardian reports today on the growing debate surrounding Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender, published earlier this month by Icon. One of the targets of Fine’s criticism in her book is Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of Cambridge University. The article reports that: ‘Professor Simon Baron-Cohen says he is unwilling to comment until he has finished Fine’s book, but he is unlikely to agree with her. In his influential book, The Essential Differen… Read more »
Ed Howker on Newsnight
Posted on 2010/09/08 in General, tagged as
Ed Howker, co-author with Shiv Malik of Jilted Generation, was on BBC 2’s Newsnight last night participating in a discussion about retirement and the generation gap in the UK. You can watch the programme here for the next 7 days – Ed is on 28 minutes in. Elsewhere, the book has been getting plenty of attention. Margareta Pagano writes about it in the Independent on Sunday and at Liberal Conspiracy Laurie Penny and Ben Little ask: Why is it easier… Read more »
Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature
Posted on 2010/09/08 in General, tagged as
John Sutherland and Stephen Fender’s Love, Sex, Death and Words has arrived back from the printer and spectacular it looks too. The book is a dazzling smorgsboard of gems of literary history, one for each day of the day. Written by revered literary critics (and friends) John Sutherland and Stephen Fender, there’s no better read for the bibliophile in your life this autumn… It’s published in early October. Read more about the book here.
Fordlandia arrives!
Posted on 2010/09/07 in General, tagged as
The paperback of Fordlandia by Greg Grandin has just arrived back from the printer. It’s published next month and well worth reading – an amazing story of Henry Ford’s bizarre venture to build an ersatz American town in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. See more about the book here.
