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‘It’s [the author’s] ability to weave together threads of history, social commentary and everyday customs that make this memoir entertaining’
Posted on 2010/09/01 in General, tagged as
A Carpet Ride to Khiva by Christopher Aslan Alexander is reviewed on the Lonely Planet website. The book is a hauntingly, beautifully written tale of the author’s journey to, and life in, the desert oasis of Khiva in Uzbekistan. The review ends by saying: ‘It was a joy being transported back to Central Asia, with its dust and decay and rounds of flat bread, its corrupt officials and wonderful hospitality, the piles of plov and greasy lamb mantis,… Read more »
‘While every generation thinks it has things uniquely bad, today’s teenagers have the statistics to back it up’
Posted on 2010/09/01 in General, tagged as
Robert Colvile writes a big piece in the Telegraph today around Ed Howker and Shiv Malik’s Jilted Generation, published by Icon tomorrow. ‘Tomorrow, a provocative new book by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik, called Jilted Generation, takes things further. The two 29-year-olds show how those born after Margaret Thatcher’s arrival in Downing Street – a category into which I, too, squeeze – have things unutterably worse than their parents.’ Keep up with th… Read more »
Jilted Generation in the Daily Mail and Herald
Posted on 2010/08/31 in General, tagged as
Ed Howker and Shiv Malik’s Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth, which is published this Thursday, was extracted over the weekend in the Daily Mail, and the authors wrote a big piece for the Herald in Scotland. See more about the book here and it’s own website is here.
‘Everything that a popular history book should be’
Posted on 2010/08/26 in General, tagged as
Bookgeeks reviews Greg Grandin’s Fordlandia, a fact-is-far-stranger-than-fiction tale of Henry Ford’s mad attempt to build his idea of a perfect American town slap bang in the middle of the Amazonian jungle. It’s won awards and plaudits aplenty both sides of the Atlantic, and we’re publishing the paperback in October.
‘With a cast of characters brought to life in superb style by Evans, Slaughter on a Snowy Morn cannot fail to keep you gripped until the very last page.’
Posted on 2010/08/25 in General, tagged as
Colin Evans’ utterly compulsive Slaughter on a Snowy Morn is reviewed on HistoryTimes.com
How to Run a Book Festival
Posted on 2010/08/25 in General, tagged as
David Shenk, author of the recently published The Genius in All of Us, was at the Edinburgh International Book Festival earlier this month, where he discussed his book at three, no less, sold-out events. And impressed he was too – justifiably – with the Festival’s slick management, as you can read here on his blog. His book is dazzling look at the new science of genetics and the frontiers of human potential, in which he argues that it’s not genet… Read more »
God’s Philosophers shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books
Posted on 2010/08/24 in General, tagged as
James Hannam’s God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science has been shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Royal Society Prize for Science Books. William Hill give the book the best odds of all of the shortlisted titles to win, at 3/1. The judges said of Hannam’s book: “A vibrant insight into the medieval approach to science, full of wonderful anecdotes and personalities. Dispelling common myths about the ‘d… Read more »
Does cycling have anything to do with philosophy?
Posted on 2010/08/23 in General, tagged as
Philosopher Alain de Botton muses on the popularity of philosophy in bookshops at the moment in the Independent today, and reserves a special mention for Icon’s 30-Second Philosophies, just published last month: ’30-Second Philosophies, compiled by Barry Loewer (Icon, £12.99), [is] a beautiful, graphically illustrated guide to the movers and shakers in the past two millennia of thinking.’ See more of that book here.
Quantum by Manjit Kumar – an audio review
Posted on 2010/08/20 in General, tagged as
Manjit Kumar’s Quantum – one of Icon’s biggest-selling titles which was shortlisted for the prestigious BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2009 – is reviewed here: It’s actually the American edition pictured though – see the Icon one here and the author’s website here.
A Mind of Its Own by Cordelia Fine – free sample!
Posted on 2010/08/20 in General, tagged as
In advance of the publication of her next book, Delusions of Gender, in September, we’re offering a free e-sample of Cordelia Fine’s previous work, A Mind of Its Own. It’s the introduction and first chapter – click on the image below to get a closer look – for have a look at Cordelia’s author page for more about this and her new book. Open publication – Free publishing – More neuroscience
