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‘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.
‘There’s nothing natural about gender stereotyping’
Posted on 2010/09/06 in General, tagged as
Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender is discussed in today’s Evening Standard. Read more about the book here.
Margareta Pagano writes on Jilted Generation in the Independent on Sunday
Posted on 2010/09/06 in General, tagged as
‘There’s a new and noisy book just out,’ Margareta Pagano writes in the Independent on Sunday ‘which you must read to discover why the young and the old are shouting at each other over the supper table in a way I’ve not heard since those great divides over drugs’n’rock’n’roll or even the Iraq invasion.’ Click here to see what all the fuss is about.
John Sutherland and John Crace at Warwick Words
Posted on 2010/09/03 in General, tagged as
Highly acclaimed literary critics and journalists John Sutherland and John Crace will be in Warwick on Monday 4th October at 7.30pm for a very special event discussing their two new books, as part of the Warwick Words festival. John Sutherland’s book, co-written with Stephen Fender, is published next month by Icon and called Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature. It collects stories from literary history for every… Read more »
Win tickets to the Independent Alliance weekend!
Posted on 2010/09/03 in General, tagged as
The Londonist has a competition to win 5 pairs of tickets to the aforementioned Independent Alliance weekend at Foyles – find out more here.
Some tickets still available for the Independent Alliance weekend at Foyles
Posted on 2010/09/03 in General, tagged as
Starting a week tomorrow on Saturday 11th September, the Independent Alliance weekend at Foyles brings together authors from across the best of British independent publishing for a series of very special events. Three of the events involving Icon authors, all on Sunday 12th, are: 12.30pm – 1.15pm: History Girls Helen Castor and Lucy Worsley (Faber), Lisa Hilton(Atlantic), Kitty Ferguson (Icon), Rachel Hewitt(Granta) We wouldn’t dream of naming na… Read more »
