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We publish science, history, politics, philosophy, psychology, humour and much else besides.

19/09/2024

🥐GIVEAWAY🥐

Knead to Know has been out for one week and we want to celebrate with a special giveaway!

Kick off autumn with the insightful history of baking and why not wear some stunning jewellery at the same time?

We’re offering five people the opportunity to win a copy of Knead to Know alongside one item from 📖

To Enter:
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- Like this post 👨‍🍳
- Tag a friend in the comments with your favourite baked good emoji 👨‍🍳

UK ONLY. Jewellery will be given at random. Closes 27th September 3pm.

12/09/2024

🌸GIVEAWAY🌸

The Va**na Business by publishes today and we’re celebrating with an exciting giveaway!

We’ve partnered with the to offer one blogger a copy of The Va**na Business, a tote bag, mug, and postcard.

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Women should never be too embarrassed to pioneer for their health.

UK only. Closes 19th September 11am.

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15/08/2024

📝GIVEAWAY 📝

We’re partnering with to celebrate the publication of God’s Own Gentlewoman by Diane Watt.

There are three stunning medieval greeting cards up for grabs, alongside three finished copies! Why not enter to see if you’ll be one of the three lucky winners?

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UK ONLY. Closes 11am 22nd August.

01/08/2024

It’s International Childfree Day and we have the perfect recommendation for all of our fellow harpies🪽

Caroline Magennis shares her hilarious anecdotes and the voices of those who have often been ignored, in Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women.

Find out how women can lead full lives without the expectation of motherhood. Available now in all great bookshops!

18/07/2024

🎉GIVEAWAY🎉

It’s the paperback publication of Ben Aitken’s Here Comes the Fun, which explores the author’s year of incorporating more fun into his life after realising he wasn’t getting enough.

To celebrate, we’re partnering with the exciting to offer one lucky winner a copy of the book and a voucher worth £250, which can be used for their comedy and improvisation courses!

To Enter:
- Like this post 🎤
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- Tag someone you always have fun with in the comments 🎤

Full of the playful and the profound, Here Comes the Fun is out now!

UK ONLY. Closes 26th July 1pm.

04/07/2024

This global history of Uranium is full of fascinating, often-forgotten stories, in which we need to consider whether the element is something to be feared or a powerful source of energy.

Chain Reactions by shines a light on Uranium’s cultural and social impact to disentangle our attitudes and unpick the atomic mindset. In understanding our nuclear past, we can move beyond the ideological opposition to atomic technology to discuss whether a nuclear-powered future if both desirable and feasible.

Out now! 🧪

10/06/2024

📝GIVEAWAY📝

The History Lessons by has been out for over a month, so why not put yourself forward for this amazing giveaway?

We’ve partnered with the lovely to offer you a copy of the book, a Sophia Duleep Singh greetings card and the matching magnet!

To Enter:
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- Tag a friend and tell us what your favourite school subject was in the comments 💚

UK ONLY. Giveaway closes 10am Monday 17th June.

20/05/2024

💜GIVEAWAY💜

To celebrate the recent publication of Harpy, we’ve partnered with the amazing Black and Beech for a special giveaway.

For all the bookworms and feminists, don’t miss out!

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Show off your love of reading with these bookworm mittens and just imagine all you could fit in the tote bag - including your copy of Harpy!

UK ONLY. Closes 1pm Sunday 26th May.

30/04/2024

🚲GIVEAWAY🚲

The lovely has partnered with us for a giveaway of the recently published The Beacon Bike.

You could be in for a chance to win this beautiful A3 design of the iconic Mumbles Lighthouse, a stunning A5 lighthouse design, and a copy of the book.

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Brighten your home with original artwork and add this heart-warming title to your collection.

UK ONLY. Closes 3pm Sunday 5th May.

16/04/2024

We’re partnering with the lovely for a special giveaway!

Read on for a chance to win one copy of Ten Men, a matching bookmark, a set of fun earrings, and this adorable scrunchie.

To Enter:
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- Like this post ❤️
- Tag a friend and leave your favourite heart emoji in the comments 🩷

You don’t want to miss out on this Cosmopolitan and Glamour best new book for April 2024 – alongside a great set of accessories.

UK ONLY. Closes 3pm Saturday 20th April.

28/03/2024

🐚GIVEAWAY🐚

We are so pleased to be partnering with for the paperback publication of Richard Smyth’s The Jay, The Beech and The Limpetshell.

Get your hands on a copy and this exquisite handmade Jay bird brooch to celebrate.

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Kick off the bank holiday weekend early with these stunning gifts!

UK ONLY. Closes 1pm Sunday 31st March.

14/03/2024

Happy paperback publication to ’s Uproar: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London.

Follow the satirists as they lampoon those in power with their prints and illustrations, which deconstructed the political landscape through surreal razor-sharp wit.

Set against the backdrop of royal madness and political intrigue, read how they turned satire into an art form, took on the British establishment, and forever changed the way we view power.

Don’t miss out on Blackwell’s Non-Fiction Book of the Month for March. Out now!

05/03/2024

Ten Men: A Year of Casual S*x is the funny, shocking, and dark debut that you’ll want to get your hands on this Spring ❤️🩷

Told through the lens of Kitty’s experiences with ten men, the reality of dating apps and casual s*x shed a necessary, but brutal, light on women’s s*xual freedom.

Exploring consent, blurred lines, and female vulnerability, this is a powerful and realistic call to arms to combat r**e culture.

Don’t miss out on this Stylist pick of best non-fiction for 2024.

03/02/2023

Effortlessly combining insights into biological and climatological processes, Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is a well-structured and smooth introduction to climate change biology.

30/01/2023

Extremely happy to announce Hamed Amiri - author of the best selling book (& now theatre production) of 'The Boy With Two Hearts' - will be speaking at the Abergavenny Writing Festival
on 22 April!
His book, turned play, can be seen on
"A story of hope from Afghanistan to Wales" 💛🧡

https://hamedamiri.co.uk Icon Books Melville Centre-Abergavenny Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales Llenyddiaeth Cymru / Literature Wales Christie Residential Waterstones Abergavenny National Theatre The National Lottery Community Fund/ Cronfa Gymunedol y Loteri Genedlaethol

23/01/2023

♦️WISE GALS by Nathalia Holt is BBC Radio 4's ** BOOK OF THE WEEK **

If you missed the first episode this morning, have a listen on BBC Sounds Ruth Killick - out 2 Feb: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001hh2c

20/01/2023

🏆WINNER! The Illustrated Etymologicon was awarded the Trade Illustrated Award 2022 earlier this week.

13/01/2023

By Karl Shaw.

25/12/2022

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🏻

From Icon Books🎁

19/12/2022

Not long to go until presents are to be opened on Christmas Day!🎄🎅🏻

This festive shopping season, why not visit your local bookshop and ask a local bookseller to recommend you some of their favourite books...📚

16/12/2022

Coming 5 Jan - Written by Bec Evans and Chris Smith.

13/12/2022

🍧🍭BOOK GIVEAWAY 🍭🍧 Looking for a last-minute Christmas gift?🎁👀🎄 We are running a giveaway for one lucky person to a copy of . To enter: 1️⃣Like Icon Books on Facebook 2️⃣Like and repost our post (UK only & 18+) Closing date 16 Dec at 12:00pm. ✨Good luck!✨

12/12/2022

✨ASTROQUIZZICAL : The Illustrated Edition Jillian Scudder✨ is a finalist for the 2023 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books

🪐Get your copy - the perfect Christmas gift this year:https://uk.bookshop.org/a/279/9781785787553

05/12/2022

📻Did you listen live on BBC Radio 4 earlier this morning? 🛌 Alice Vernon's NIGHT TERRORS wilI be read out every weekday morning as part of Radio 4's -- here's episode 1:https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fvyw

21/11/2022

"With contributions from Patti smith, David Sedaris and other cultural icons, this banquet of a book lays bare the bond between food and emotions." Joanne Owen, Expert Reviewer

My First Popsicle by Zosia Mamet, Icon Books

Get 10% off your order:
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21/11/2022

was a resounding victory for the England football team🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - well done 🦁

Read more about the host nation in this year's in John McManus' Inside Qatar: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/279/9781785788215

16/11/2022

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15/11/2022

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𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘢, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘺. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭.

How to be a Girl by was described by as 'beautifully written'

11/11/2022

Does a doughnut hole exist? What makes a sandwich a sandwich? Can the baker, who only bakes for those who don't bake for themselves, bake for herself? Using food to explore classic philosophical puzzles and paradoxes about how we know things, abstract ideas about our world, language and about how…

10/11/2022

🌝'Excellent . . . A terrific insight into why the Victorian era was a golden age of engineering.' Nick Smith, Engineering & Technology Magazine

🚂Order Iwan Rhys Morus' HOW THE VICTORIANS TOOK US TO THE MOON - out now:https://uk.bookshop.org/a/279/9781785789281

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In Class: A Graphic Guide, sociologists Laura Harvey & Sarah Leaney ask one very important question: ✍🏻What do we mean by social class in the 21st century? With comics by award-winning illustrator Danny Noble, a book on wants understanding how class functions in one's own lifel

🚨BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 We are ✨ECSTATIC✨ to bring a new book by Ben Aitken, THE MARMALADE DIARIES, which publishes on 10 March. 🍽We'll let Ben himself tell you about this one... 🍊Pre-order: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/279/9781785788130

📕: https://bit.ly/TIE21 It's been less than a week since the publication of The Illustrated Etymologicon. 'Witty and erudite' Nick Duerden, The Independent 🎁Find out more about the Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller, now published in a ✨NEW✨ edition: https://bit.ly/TIE21

'Working for HOPE Not Hate, our job is to try and, in some ways combat really dangerous and violent people.' If you missed Joe Mulhall speak to Mobeen Azhar on BBC Radio 5 live about his book DRUMS IN THE DISTANCE, you can listen now on the BBC Sounds App: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xyxh

🐦 : https://uk.bookshop.org/a/279/9781785787430 Out next month, journey with Matthew Gavin Frank - in his book Flight of the Diamond Smugglers - to the mining towns of South Africa's notorious diamond coast, where an ancillary industry of illicit diamond smuggling thrives... Coming 8 July Pre-order now: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/279/9781785787430

'I'd like to some say in how I'm thought of in the future [...] so this is my story told in my own way.' Next month, we publish Anne Theroux's memoir titled The Year of the End: A Memoir of Marriage, Truth and Fiction. In this video, listen to Anne as she describes the details of her forthcoming book and why she felt now was the right time to tell her story. Pre-order your copy: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-year-of-the-end/anne-theroux//9781785787393

➡️https://www.waterstones.com/book/quarantine-comix/rachael-smith/9781785787836 'I want to give a shout-out to a talented comic artist, Rachael Smith Illustration [...] who has created a graphic memoir about life in lockdown' We're OVERJOYED to have #AdamBuxton spread the ✨QUARANTINE COMIX✨ love on his podcast. Not long to go, now! 📒Pre-order: https://www.waterstones.com/book/quarantine-comix/rachael-smith/9781785787836

Quarantine Comix - Coming 13 May 2021

✨BOOKSELLERS! ✨ We have *just* had a delivery of some #QuarantineComix bookmarks at Icon HQ - with exclusive artwork by Rachael Smith Illustration to depict how excited we all are to be returning to bookshops in a few weeks...🌟 Order now via your rep at the Indies Alliance Coming 13/05/21