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The Great Composers eBook Series
Posted on 2014/07/21 in News, tagged as classical, independent, michael steen, music
We’re very proud to announce a brand-new ebook-exclusive project in collaboration with the Independent! New this week, the Independent and the team at Icon have put their heads together to bring you The Great Composers ebook series – 14 concise guides to the Giants of Western classical music at just £0.99 each! Extracted… Read more »
Writing popular science with Brian Clegg and Simon Flynn
Posted on 2014/07/03 in News, tagged as brian clegg
Are you a scientist or researcher with an idea for a popular science book or a journalist, or a non-fiction author interested in writing for the popular science market? There’s a Guardian Masterclass this month created just for you! Icon Books authors Brian Clegg, author of Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You, Dice World and newly published The Quantum Age and Simon Flynn, science teacher and author of The Science Magpie, are taking part in… Read more »
Watch Ian Plenderleith introduce Rock ‘n’ Roll Soccer
Posted on 2014/07/01 in New Books, tagged as
The USA national team will tonight line up against Belgium in Brazil to compete for a place in the World Cup quarter finals. They are on the brink of equalling their best ever World Cup showing and the sport’s popularity has soared state-side as result. Not since Pelé was strutting his stuff for the Cosmos has ‘soccer’ been such a hot topic, so what better time to indulge in some NASL nostalgia. Watch the video below of Ian Plenderleith, author o… Read more »
Celebrating Independent Booksellers Week 2014: Our Unknown Unknowns
Posted on 2014/06/28 in General, tagged as mark forsyth
Independent Booksellers Week 2014 starts today, which means Mark Forsyth’s The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted has been released into the world and is now available exclusively from independent bookshops. In this essay, Mark Forsyth explores why only a bookshop can give you that precious thing – what you never knew you were looking for – the unknown unknown, so we thought we would celebrate by sharing our… Read more »
Michael Sells’ World Cup update!
Posted on 2014/06/27 in News, tagged as
Icon’s Sales Executive Michael Sells gives us his take on the World Cup so far, with particular reference to those players on whom we’ve published biographies by Luca Caioli! Well, with the group stages of the World Cup complete and the knockout rounds upon us there’s been little chance to pause for breath and reflect. Before we knew it Costa Rica and the USA had managed to shock all to escape their groups, whilst the England team boarded their p… Read more »
Win a limited edition leatherbound copy of The Elements of Eloquence, signed by Mark Forsyth, with National Book Tokens
Posted on 2014/06/23 in Competitions, tagged as mark forsyth
Independent Booksellers Week begins on 28th June and we want to let you know about a very special competition you can enter! Mark Forsyth’s essay, The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, will be available exclusively from indies on Saturday for only £1.99. Mark Forsyth’s third book, The Elements of Eloquence, is also available in paperback early. If yo… Read more »
Dice World by Brian Clegg longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2014
Posted on 2014/06/13 in News, tagged as brian clegg
We’re thrilled to announce that Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe has been longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2014, which celebrates outstanding popular science books from around the world. In Dice World, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random universe, uncovering the truths and lies behind probability and statistics, explaining how chaotic interventi… Read more »
Published this November, a book of science haiku by Camden School for Girls!
Posted on 2014/06/11 in New Books, tagged as
We are incredibly excited to announce that this November we will be publishing Sciku: The Wonder of Science – in Haiku!, written entirely by students at Camden School for Girls. The 400 haiku will cover science themes from gravity to photosynthesis, from Einstein’s E=mc2 to Marie Curie’s discovery of radium, just like this example: Gravity An attractive force Between all objects with mass Just like you and me Elizabeth Kitcatt, Headteacher of Cam… Read more »
From bestselling popular science author Brian Clegg, comes The Quantum Age
Posted on 2014/06/09 in New Books, tagged as brian clegg
Brian Clegg’s new popular science masterpiece, The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives, available now, shows us all how quantum physics underpins everyday life. The stone age, the iron age, the steam and electrical ages all saw the reach of humankind transformed by new technology. Now we are living in the quantum age, a revolution in everyday life led by our understanding of the very, very small. Today, techno… Read more »
New Books Published In June: Harry’s Last Stand, The Quantum Age, Tales from the Turf & Introducing Lévi-Strauss: A Graphic Guide
Posted on 2014/06/06 in New Books, tagged as brian clegg, harry leslie smith, introducing, robin oakley
Check out the new books we published this month! Harry’s Last Stand is 91-year-old Yorkshireman and RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith’s unique perspective on NHS cutbacks, benefits policy, political corruption, food poverty, the cost of education – and much more. Read an extract from Harry’s Last Stand on the NHS over at the Guardian. In The Quantum Age, Brian Clegg, acclaimed popular science writer and author of Inflight Science, The Universe Insid… Read more »
