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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 »
Read an extract from Harry’s Last Stand in the Guardian
Posted on 2014/06/05 in New Books, tagged as harry leslie smith
Harry’s Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it by Harry Leslie Smith, published today, has been extracted in the Guardian. Check out his powerful and moving article on the NHS below. Post by The Guardian. Harry Leslie Smith will be in conversation with Selina Todd at Blackwell’s Oxford on Monday 9th June at 7pm. Tickets £3 and can be purchased in store or by calling 01865 333 623. Go here to s… Read more »
Quantum by Manjit Kumar gets a new look!
Posted on 2014/06/04 in News, tagged as manjit kumar
We first published Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar in 2008 and since then it has become one of the most highly acclaimed books on quantum theory and its history! This month, Quantum receives a stunning new cover, printed in tactile supermatt (the soft, velvety paper you may have come across before!), designed by Mark Swan. A thrilling narrative history of science’s most fundamental revoluti… Read more »
Join Mark Forsyth on his Independent Booksellers Week tour!
Posted on 2014/05/29 in Events, tagged as mark forsyth
Mark Forsyth is going on tour for Independent Booksellers Week! Join Mark Forsyth throughout Independent Booksellers Week 2014, where he will be talking about how a Christening present of an Oxford English Dictionary set the tone for a life immersed in the idiosyncrasies of words, and gave birth to his brilliant trio of books on the English language, The Etymologicon, The Horologicon and The Elements of Eloquence. These being talks in bookshops –… Read more »
New for Autumn – Geoff Hurst’s Fifty Greatest Footballers of All Time
Posted on 2014/05/28 in New Books, tagged as geoff hurst
Sir Geoff Hurst (right) with Icon’s MD Philip Cotterell (left) We’re delighted to announce that this autumn we will be publishing Geoff Hurst’s Fifty Greatest Footballers of All Time, by legendary 1966 England World Cup hero and hat-trick scorer Sir Geoff Hurst, in association with Timpson, the leading nationwide service retailer. Sir Geoff’s choice of his Fifty Greatest players includes outstanding players from his own era alongside stars from t… Read more »
What do you stand up for? Join in with Harry’s Last Stand
Posted on 2014/05/16 in General, tagged as harry leslie smith
@andrewfurlow’s stand Harry’s Last Stand, published next month, is 91-year-old Yorkshireman, RAF veteran and ex-carpet salesman Harry Leslie Smith’s unique perspective on NHS cutbacks, benefits policy, political corruption, food poverty, the cost of education – and much more. From the deprivation of 1930s Barnsley and the terror of war to the creation of our welfare state, Harry has experienced how a great civilisation can rise from the ru… Read more »
