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TikTok has revolutionised young adult fiction recently, but with Alice Loxton’s new book, its power will be unleashed in non-fiction too. She is ‘the next big thing in history’ according to Dan Snow and has already amassed more than 330,000 TikTok followers and 4.3m views. Her UPROAR! is a brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, and sure to turn the heads of both traditional history readers and those newer to the genre.
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The Jonathan Ball UK list, headed by Publisher Jeremy Boraine, launches this season with a fantastic history book, Finding Endurance. The discovery of Ernest Shackleton’s long-lost ship in March 2022 sparked wonder and delight around the world, and Darrel Bristow-Bovey’s lyrical book tells its tale and celebrates the human spirit that underlies both its original mission and its discovery 106 years later.
We have a brilliant new series of illustrated books, too: Short Cuts, which ‘map’ the reader through humankind’s most challenging subjects, our first four titles covering Psychology, Science, Philosophy and Medicine.
Welcome to the first catalogue for 2023 from Icon Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers.
This list is strong on nature writing, with Roger Morgan-Grenville’s most compelling book to date, his account of a 1,000-mile walk through the British spring, Across a Waking Land. Acclaimed novelist and short story writer Richard Smyth presents his beautifully written The Jay, the Beech and the Limpetshell, and Kate Rawles traces the ecology of South America by bamboo bike in The Life Cycle.
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With each new book of his that Icon has published, Ben Aitken’s star has risen. His latest, riotously enjoyable offering - Here Comes the Fun - will be the perfect pick-meup just at a time when the world needs it. It’s our superlead title for the season and will see Ben and his work pushed to even greater heights.
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James Gray’s biography of Max Verstappen was a 2022 highlight, and this season will see the publication of three further Formula 1 biographies. Gray returns to cover British driver George Russell, the Sun’s leading Formula 1 journalist Ben Hunt tells fellow Brit Lando Norris’s story, while Metro F1 correspondent Adam Hay-Nicholls publishes the first biography of Monaco-born wunderkind Charles Leclerc.
The highly anticipated third instalment of Rachael Smith’s award-winning auto-bio comics
Glass Half Empty
Coming out the other side of a break up and finding her feet in her new single life, in Glass Half Empty Rachael Smith turns her attention to her ‘Daddy issues’ and ensuing problematic relationship with alcohol.
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From the award-winning author of Quarantine Comix, Wired Up Wrong and Stand in Your Power, this is another extremely honest auto-bio comic shining a light on the reality of mental health. Rufus the cat (recent star of a New York Times cartoon) and Barky, the giant black dog inside her head, are returning characters fans of Rachael Smith will be heartened to be reunited with. £12.99 148mm
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RACHAEL SMITH is a UK-based comics creator, whose books include Quarantine Comix, Wired Up Wrong, Stand in Your Power and The Rabbit, which was nominated for Best Book in the 2015 British Comic Awards, following her nomination for Emerging Talent. She lives in Greater Manchester.
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Short Cuts: Psychology Navigate Your Way Through Big Ideas
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Short Cuts: Psychology provides the map you need to start exploring seriously big ideas. Fifty quickfire questions lead to ‘short cut’ answers written by experts in their field, with each one the setting-off point for clear directions to help you plot your route through an essential concept.
experts in their fields, in easy-to-follow, accessible and compelling language
JANUARY 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Psychology • 9781785789434 • Jan
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JENNIFER WILD is Professor of Military Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and holds an affiliate position at the University of Oxford. She has written for Nature, BBC, The Times, The Sunday Times and The Psychologist. Author of Be Extraordinary: 7 Key Skills to Transform your Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary, Professor Wild applies science to understanding and preventing mental ill health.
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What with visual illusions and misinformation, positive mindsets and negative thoughts, social anxiety and personal constructs, the modern landscape of the human mind is an intriguing place to explore. But how are you expected to navigate this hidden world?
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MARK PEPLOW is a science writer with a PhD in organometallic chemistry from Imperial College London and twenty years of experience as a reporter and editor. Former chief news editor at Nature and editor of Chemistry World, his writing spans the physical sciences from astrophysics to Earth and environmental science. He lives in Penrith, UK, and spends as much time as possible hiking the Lake District fells.
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What with accelerating particles and gravitational waves, dark matter and light speed, nanoscales and exoplanets, the landscape of today’s science is an amazing place to explore. But how are you expected to navigate this rapidly spinning world?
Short Cuts: Science provides the map you need to start exploring seriously big ideas. Fifty quickfire questions lead to ‘short cut’ answers written by experts in their field, with each one the setting-off point for clear directions to help you plot your route through an essential concept.
With one-stop graphics presenting a memorable image for each idea, and route-map glossaries explaining key words and their connections, Short Cuts: Science will guide you through a world of intellectual wonders. 2023 £14.99 234 x 156mm HB 160pp Territory: rights: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
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Arlene Prinsloo sifts fact from fiction in her revealing unauthorised biography of a princess
In Search of a Princess
Prinsloo traces her life from humble beginnings in Zimbabwe, Johannesburg and Durban to the Olympic Games, her jet-set romance with the bachelor prince, the fairy-tale wedding and becoming a mother. At its heart, it’s the story of a woman is search of happiness for herself and her family – and also of the beginning of Charlene defining her own space amid royal protocol. 2023 £9.99 244pp w/ 8pp ex Southern Africa rights: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
When Charlene Wittstock married Prince Albert of Monaco in a star-studded wedding watched by millions across the world in 2011, rumours of her getting cold feet and her unhappiness about his love children swirled around the couple.
Ever since then, the Olympic swimmer has been in the eye of the paparazzi and the centre of endless tabloid speculation.
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ARLENE PRINSLOO is a veteran journalist who has worked for Netwerk24, Rapport, Die Burger and Beeld in a career spanning 30 years. She has covered royal news as a blogger for Sarie and Netwerk24. She lives in Cape Town.
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Having coached over 10,000 writers, they’ve learned that productivity is personal. Their results-driven approach is designed to help you find a realistic and sustainable practice that will get you to the end of any writing project.
For anyone with a project they need to get written, this inspiring book offers practical strategies to beat the inner critic, find time, keep motivated and write. 2023 £16.99 Demy HB 288pp Agency
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’This book collects some of the best advice I’ve ever encountered for constructing a writing habit that actually works’ Oliver Burkeman, from his foreword
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Many people think that there’s only one ‘right’ way to write – or that trying harder is the key.
With a foreword by Oliver Burkeman, author of The Sunday Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, this is the ultimate guide to building a successful writing habit
Productivity coaches and co-founders of Prolifiko Bec Evans and Chris Smith know this isn’t true.
BEC EVANS and CHRIS SMITH are award-winning writers, productivity coaches and founders of Prolifiko with twenty+ years’ experience in communications and publishing sectors. Bec is the author of How to Have a Happy Hustle and Chris is a copywriter and scriptwriter. They live in West Yorkshire.
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DANIELLE FRIEDMAN is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Health, and other publications. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
The untold history of women’s exercise culture, from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda
Author of The Cut’s viral article unearthing the little-known origins of barre workouts, Danielle Friedman explores the history of women’s exercise, and how physical strength has been parlayed into other forms of power.
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‘An absorbing, pacy read’ New Statesman
jogging, aerobics, weight training and yoga, Friedmann tells the story of how, with the rise of late-20th century feminism, women discovered the joy of physical competence – and, by moving together, transformed fitness from a privilege into a right. 2023 £10.99 B-format PB w/ 8pp Territory: UK & Comm Translation rights: Putnam, PRH US
‘The story of lycra-clad feminism’ Stylist
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Only in the sixties, thanks to a few forwardthinking fitness pioneers, did women begin to move en masse. In doing so, they were pursuing not only physical strength, but personal Exploringautonomy.barre,
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A Lifetime in Football at West Ham United TONY CARR
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In this unique evocation of a coach’s craft, Tony tells the incredible story of his footballing life. He recounts his time with West Ham, with tales of the twelve managers he coached under, and players and ex-players talk frankly about football and their place within it. Icon Agency
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next 43 years he honed his craft, guiding multiple generations of international footballers through the ranks.
The autobiography of a West Ham legend – including exclusive interviews with Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, Michael Carrick, Joe Cole and Mark Noble
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TONY CARR was born in Bow, East London and joined West Ham as a teenager, spending 48 years at the club. He won the FA Youth Cup twice and was made an MBE for his services to football in 2010. He lives in Essex.
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‘A must read for every West Ham United fan’ Mark Noble
Tony Carr is one of the most influential coaches of all time. After signing with West Ham, a broken leg ended his dreams of a playing career. Not to be deterred, he joined the youth academy as a coach, and over a decade later was appointed
Hijab Butch Blues A Memoir
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unflinching, Hijab Butch Blues heralds the arrival of a truly original voice, asking powerful questions about gender and sexuality, relationships, identity and faith, and what it means to build a life of one’s own. £16.99 Demy HB 304pp rights: HG Literary
LAMYA H. is a former Lambda Literary Fellow whose writing has appeared in Vice, Salon, Vox, Black Girl Dangerous, Autostraddle, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She currently lives in New York with her partner.
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to vanish than to grapple with the difficulty of taking up space in a world that doesn’t fit. She is a queer teenager growing up in a Muslim household, a South Asian in a Middle Eastern country. But during her Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam, and suddenly everything shifts: if Maryam was never touched by any man, could Maryam be... like RawLamya?and
A daring, witty and moving memoir about coming of age as a queer hijabi Muslim immigrant
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Wise Gals
They were smart, courageous and groundbreaking agents, instrumental in both developing innovative tools for intelligence gathering after the Second World War and insisting that they receive the credit and pay their expertise deserved.
The never-before-told story of four influential female spies, who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage
‘A sweeping epic of a book ... You won’t regret reading’ Kate Moore, author of Radium Girls
NATHALIA HOLT is The New York Times bestselling author of The Queens of Animation and Rise of the Rocket Girls. Her work features in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Popular Science and Time. She lives in California.
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The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
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Meticulously researched and beautifully told, Wise Gals sheds a light on the untold history of the women whose daring foreign intrigues, domestic persistence and fighting spirit have been, and continue to be, instrumental to the world’s security. Feb 2023 £25.00 HB 400pp UK & Comm Canada rights: Putnam, PRH US
Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the ‘wise gals’ by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humour and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femmes fatales of spy novels.
’As much Le Carré as it is hidden Amaryllisfigures’Fox, author of Life Undercover
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Blending physics, philosophy, and the history of ideas, The One is an epic, mind-expanding journey through millennia of human thought and into the nature of reality itself. 2023 £25.00 HB 384pp rights: Hachette Book Group
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HEINRICH PÄS is a professor of theoretical physics at TU Dortmund University in Germany. He has held positions at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Hawai’i and has conducted research visits at CERN and Fermilab. He lives in Bremen, Germany.
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Particle physicist Heinrich Päs presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole. This idea, called monism, goes back to Plato, but was rejected as irrational and heretical in medieval times, before going on to inspire both Enlightenment science and Romantic poetry.
Päs shows how monism could inspire physics today, slicing through the intellectual stagnation that has bogged down progress in modern physics and helping science achieve the ‘grand theory of everything’ that it has been chasing for decades.
A big, bold science and ideas book from a practising physicist –perfect for fans of Brian Cox, Carlo Rovelli or Frank Close
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A particle physicist makes the scientific case for an ancient idea about the nature of the universe: that all is One
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Astrobiology presents an expert guide to this compelling field of science. It shows how the telltale signatures of life on Earth might hold the key to detecting life beyond our planet, explores the many planets beyond our Solar System discovered by NASA’s Kepler and TESS missions, and explains alien-hunting touchstones such as Fermi’s Paradox, the Drake Equation, and the ‘Wow’
rovers burrow into Mars and its probes peer ever further into the cosmos, this illustrated edition combines deep space images with infographics to cast a scientific eye over the most significant of scientific treasure hunts. 2023 £20.00 165mm 320pp Canada rights: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
ASTROBIOLOGY
A new, fully illustrated edition Of Andrew May’s Illuminating Guide To Life Not On Earth
ANDREW MAY is a freelance writer and former scientist, with a PhD in astrophysics. He has written five books in Icon’s Hot Science series: Destination Mars, Cosmic Impact, Astrobiology, The Space Business and The Science of Music. He lives in Somerset.
The possibility that alien life exists in the universe is among the most profound of human conjectures, which today is being investigated not just by science-fiction writers but by scientists
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The Search for Alien Life: The Illustrated Edition
Outbreaks and Pandemics
Covid-19 and monkeypox make Outbreaks and Pandemics an essential guide to the future. It narrates a disquieting journey through the history, science, and politics of humankind’s ongoing war against contagion; and assesses the chances of eradicating disease in the future. It also reveals how globalisation, mobile populations, climate change, vaccine hesitancy, and drug-resistant pathogens have combined to create the perfect conditions for pandemics to spread.
FEBRUARY 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Popular Science • 9781785789670 • Feb 2023 • £20.00 • 228mm x 165mm HB •• 320pp • Territory: World ex Canada & US• Translation rights: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
Fighting Infection, From Smallpox to Coronavirus: The Illustrated Edition
For decades scientists have been warning of a global pandemic, and the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has realised their worst fears.
’A book that couldn’t be more timely, providing an accessible introduction to epidemiology’ Kirkus
MEERA SENTHILINGAM is a journalist, editor, and public health consultant specialising in global health and infectious disease.
This updated and illustrated edition combines extensive research with illuminating photographs and infographics to chart the pattern of outbreaks and reveal the microscopic world at their heart.
A new eye-opening illustrated edition of Meera Senthilingam’s timely guide
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Making the effort to recycle, but drowning under all the packaging?
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An incredibly timely book full of practical tips and advice for living a more sustainable life, from the UK Sustainability Influencer of the Year
How to spot greenwashing, stop consuming and demand a more sustainable future
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Buy Better, Consume Less Create Real Environmental Change
With practical tips on how to see through greenwashing, hold corporations accountable and consume less, Sian Conway-Wood shows how we can create demand for sustainability in supply chains and put pressure on decision makers to put people and the planet above profit. 2023 £9.99 272pp The Sophie Bradshaw Literary Agency
Trying to buy ethically, but struggling to see past ‘sustainable’ marketing campaigns?
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For too long, eco-responsibility has been shifted onto the consumers, forcing us to individually spend time and effort to make the right choices. It’s time to push back and demand change.
Eight Improbable Possibilities
We know that the Universe had a beginning, and when it was – and also that the expansion of the Universe is speeding up. We can detect ripples in space that are one ten-thousandth the width of a proton, made by colliding black holes billions of light years from Earth.
Echoing Sherlock Holmes’ famous dictum, John Gribbin tells us: ‘Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is certainly possible, in the light of present scientific knowledge.’ With that in mind, he turns his attention to some of the mind-bendingly improbable truths of science. For example:
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A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science
FEBRUARY 2023 • PAPERBACK • ICON BOOKS Popular Science • 9781785789793 • Feb
’Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter ... a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper’ Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths
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And, most importantly from our perspective, all complex life on Earth today is descended from a single cell – but without the stabilising influence of the Moon, life forms like us could never have evolved. 2023 £8.99 B-format PB 192pp rights: David Higham Agency
The first major book by a biologist to focus on the fascinating story of how the natural world is adjusting, adapting, and sometimes measurably evolving in response to climate change.
How the Natural World is Adapting to Climate Change THOR HANSON
have a great deal to teach us about the nature of what comes next, because for many of them, and also for many of us, that world is already here. Perseus
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Bestselling nature writer Thor Hanson – author of Buzz (a Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’) – shows us how Caribbean lizards have grown larger toe pads to grip trees more tightly during frequent hurricanes; and how the ‘plasticity’ of squid has allowed them to change their body size and breeding habits to cope with altered sea
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’An original, wide-ranging and carefully researched book ... contains important lessons for humanity.’
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid
A fascinating insight into climate change biology around the globe, as well as in our own backyards
THOR HANSON is a biologist whose previous books include The Impenetrable Forest and Feathers (longlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize). He has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and contributed to publications including BBC Wildlife and the Huffington Post. He lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest, USA.
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The True Story of One British Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade
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Longlisted for the Mountbatten Maritime Media Awards 2022
‘A tale skillfully teased out of the vaults and made vivid by an artful narrative’ Kirkus
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Initially a slaving vessel itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the vessel liberated more enslaved people than any other in Britain’s West Africa
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attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell to ships as they battled weather disasters, and interpersonal drama.
The Black Joke is a crucial and deeply compelling work of history, both as a reckoning with slavery and abolition and as a lesson about the power of political will – or the lack thereof. 2023 £11.99 B-format PB 400pp USA rights: Foundry Literary + Media
A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade
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One hundred years after the execution, AgathaAward shortlisted Stephen Bates examines and retells the story of the case, evoking the period and atmosphere of the early 1920s, and questioning the fatal judgment. £10.99 336pp
Within fifteen months of such a sad domestic tragedy, her husband, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, would be arrested, tried and hanged for poisoning her with arsenic, the only solicitor ever to be executed in England.
The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery
‘A meticulously researched [book] that boasts all the ingredients a crime fiction fan could hope for’ The Sunday Times
On a bleak Tuesday morning in February 1921, 48-year-old Katharine Armstrong died in her bedroom in an Edwardian villa overlooking the rolling hills between Wales and England.
‘Clear engaging prose ... with plenty of storytelling flair’ Times Literary Supplement
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A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham
STEPHEN BATES read Modern History at New College, Oxford before working as a journalist for the BBC, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail for 22 years. A regular broadcaster, he has also written for Spectator, New Statesman and Time magazine. He currently lives in Kent.
The Poisonous Solicitor
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Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter steppes. Then there was the Cotton Road, marked by greed, colonialism and environmental disaster.
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Travels and Textiles in Central Asia
Veteran traveller and textile expert Chris Aslan explores the Silk, Wool and Cotton Roads of Central Asia
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‘An excellent guide through … local life, and [Aslan’s] writing is thick with his adventures in this walled city, drawing a vivid portrait of the domestic lives of his Uzbek hosts with great affection and humour’ Telegraph on Aslan’s previous book, A Carpet Ride to Khiva (Icon, 2009)
Unravelling the Silk Road
At this intersection of human history, fortunes were made and lost through shimmering silks, life-giving felts and gossamer cottons. Chris Aslan, who has spent fifteen years living and working in the region, expertly unravels the strands of this tangled history and embroiders them with his own experiences of life in the heart of Asia. £20.00 HB 320pp w/ 8pp
UPROAR!
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ALICE LOXTON is a 26-year-old historian and the lead female presenter at History Hit TV, where she regularly co-presents documentaries with Dan Snow. She is also a wellloved face of the History Hit YouTube channel, and shares her passion for history with her 331,000 TikTok followers.
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A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK ’s most exciting young historians
Scandal, Satire & Printmakers in Georgian London ALICE LOXTON
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London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way to the Royal Academy Schools. James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would soon join him in turning satire into an artform, taking on the British establishment, and for ever changing the way we view power.
Set against a backdrop of royal madness, political intrigue, the birth of modern celebrity, American independence and the Napoleonic Wars, UPROAR! follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power with surreal and razorsharp wit.
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Teaching My Kids About Wild Things
A beautiful and poignant memoir and history of what the natural world means to children
Richard Smyth had always been drawn to the natural world, but when he became a father, he found a new joy, and a new urgency in showing his kids the everyday wild things around them. As he and his children explore rockpools or the woods near their Yorkshire home, he imagines the world they might inhabit as they grow up.
Through different objects discovered on their wanderings, Smyth examines his own past as well as that of the early natural historians, weaving together history, memoir, and environmentalism to form a new kind of nature writing: one that asks both what we have lost, and what we have yet to find. £16.99 Demy HB 224pp Icon Books/Marsh Agency
Praise for Richard’s previous books:
The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell
‘A dazzling lexicon and a roadrunner pace that can turn on a sixpence’ Tim Dee, author of Greenery
RICHARD SMYTH
RICHARD SMYTH is a writer and critic. He is author of six books of non-fiction, including A Sweet Wild Note and An Indifference of Birds, and the novel The Woodcock. His short stories have also been widely published and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Max‘Extraordinary’Porter,author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers
The Guerrilla and the Journalist
Fred Bridgland covered the ‘hot war’ in Angola where he made international headlines by revealing South Africa’s secret military incursion in support of UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in 1975. After becoming close friends with a UNITA guerrilla, Tito Chingunji, he wrote a sympathetic biography of the charismatic
Exploring tbe murderous legacy of Jonas Savimbi
four decades on, sets the record straight. It details the extraordinary bond between the author and Chingunji, and the perilous challenges they faced as they sought to reveal Savimbi’s true, murderous face. £10.99 256pp Icon
A veteran journalist retraces Africa’s proxy war in Angola and the shocking human rights abuses committed by the ‘great hope’ of the Free West
FRED BRIDGLAND is a veteran British foreign correspondent and author. He reported on the Angolan civil war and the Border War for Reuters as the agency’s Central Africa correspondent in the 1970s and then from South Africa for the Sunday Telegraph and The Scotsman in the 1980s and 1990s.
FRED BRIDGLAND
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A personal account of the bond that developed between a guerrilla fighter and a journalist, and the terrifying challenges they faced as they revealed Jonas Savimbi’s true colours.
In this new title in the Hot Science series, science writer Brian Clegg looks at how humans have piggybacked on natural experimentation, redeploying a solution to create things that make our lives easier. He looks at how the hooks on burdock seeds inspired the creation of Velcro, how the stickiness of the feet of geckos and frogs has been used to create gripping surfaces, such as tyre treads, and how even the most basic optical enhancement in the form of spectacles is itself a form of biomimetics. Icon Books/Marsh
BRIAN CLEGG
How Lessons From Nature can Transform Technology
An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind
Biomimetics
Biomimetics literally means emulating biology – and in a broader sense the term covers technological advances where the original inspiration came from nature. The Earth is a vast laboratory where the mechanisms of natural selection have enabled evolutionary solutions to be developed to a wide range of problems.
BRIAN CLEGG’s many books include Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity, both longlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and, most recently, Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World.
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New for Icon’s Hot Science series which seeks – as with Bill McGuire’s recent bestselling Hothouse Earth –to explain the cutting edge of science and technology for a curious lay audience
MARCH 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Popular Science • 9781785789892 • Mar 2023 • £9.99 • B-format PB • 176pp • Territory: World • Translation rights:
New for Icon’s Hot Science series which seeks – as with Bill McGuire’s recent bestselling Hothouse Earth –to explain the cutting edge of science and technology for a curious lay audience
ANDREW MAY is a freelance writer and former scientist, with a PhD in astrophysics. This is his fifth book in the Hot Science series, following Destination Mars, Cosmic Impact, Astrobiology and The Space Business. He lives in Somerset.
The Science of Music
How Technology Has Shaped the Evolution of an Artform
In this new title in Icon’s Hot Science series, Andrew May traces how important science is in all aspects of music. After the basics of acoustic science and the history of sound waves, he explores how musicians have played with the scientific parameters of sound to apply algorithmic rules to create music.
ANDREW MAY
An investigation into the relationship between science and music – from Pythagoras to the Moog synthesiser
The role of science in music can be seen most obviously in the development of electronic technology, which has revolutionised how humans create, record and listen to music. The book also covers the complex world of brain science behind the creation of music, and the way we listen to and perceive it, and the frightening question of whether some form of AI would ever be able to create music on a par to that created by humans.
MARCH 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Popular Science • 9781785789915 • Mar 2023 • £9.99 • B-format PB • 176pp • Territory: World • Translation rights: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
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The benefits and potential nightmares of artificial intelligence have long inspired science-fiction writers, but in a world where most of us carry a portable device that knows infinitely more than we do, these are increasingly real concerns.
An intriguing and beautiful illustrated edition of Yorick Wilks’ insiders guide to AI
YORICK WILKS
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This illustrated edition combines compelling photographs with ‘circuit-board’ infographics to lift the curtain on the hidden world of AI. 2023 £20.00 228mm x 156mm 256pp World rights: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
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Artificial Intelligence is the essential companion to this unsettling science. It surveys the history, philosophies, and current state of AI, and asks key questions such as how should robots think, and can machines really learn? With subjects ranging from the World Wide Web to artificial companions, the book considers such ethical issues as automated warfare, internet surveillance, and fake news, speculating on just how far robots will infiltrate our future.
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YORICK WILKS is an emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sheffield, a research associate of the Oxford Internet Institute and a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition. His books include Artificial Companions (Benjamins, 2010) and Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief (with Afzal Ballim, Psychology Press, 1991).
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Few drivers have ever shaken up Formula 1 in quite the same way as Max Verstappen. Already the youngest competitor in F1 history, having made his breakthrough in 2015 aged just seventeen, he has gone on to make history as the first Dutch driver to win the World InChampionship.thisnewpaperback
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Fully updated edition of the bestselling biography on Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen
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Max Verstappen
A fully updated paperback edition of the bestselling biography on Max Verstappen
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Born to Race: A Biography
JAMES GRAY is a journalist and broadcaster with nearly a decade of experience. Starting with the Daily Express, he has spent most of his career covering Formula 1, tennis, boxing and a host of other sports, now writing for the i.
edition, featuring material covering the 2022 racing season, sports journalist James Gray seeks to understand the outspoken nature and aggressive driving style that make Verstappen a must-watch before, during and after races, and why his Dutch fans, who turn up to cheer him on in their orange-clad droves, are quite so fanatical. 2023 £10.99 Books/Marsh
JULIAN MANYON was a journalist specialising in international stories for more than 40 years, starting in Vietnam. He covered the Falklands War in Argentina for Thames Television’s TV Eye and then became a long-serving foreign correspondent for ITN, winning numerous awards for his work. He lives with his wife on their small farm in the south of England.
JULIAN MANYON
Kidnapped by the Junta
Published on the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict, this book is an extraordinary insight into the war behind the war. Manyon provides a harrowing depiction of the campaign of terror that the Junta waged on its own population, and a new perspective on an episode of history more often centred on Mrs Thatcher, the Belgrano and the battle of Goose Green. 336pp
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Inside Argentina’s Wars with Britain and Itself
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‘Fascinating’ Spectator
Forty years on from the outbreak of the war, acclaimed TV journalist Julian Manyon digs down into Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ and its effect on the Falklands conflict
powerful‘Heart-thumpingly...history told from the closest and most frightening quarters’ Sinclar McKay, author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
DAVID ORRELL is a scientist and writer of books on science and economics. His books include Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets It Wrong and Quantum Economics: The New Science of Money, plus Behavioural Economics in the Hot Science series. He lives in Toronto.
Money, Magic, and How to Dismantle a Financial Bomb
Money has many apparently magical properties. It can be created out of the void – and vanish without so much as a puff of smoke. It can flash through space. It can grow without limit. And it can blow up without warning.
’Orrell argues that modelling markets with the mathematical toolbox of quantum mechanics could lead to a better understanding of them ... Such ideas may still sound abstract. But they will soon be physically embodied on trading floors ... One way or another, finance will catch up’ The Economist
David Orrell argues that the emerging discipline of quantum economics, of which he is at the forefront, is the key to shattering the illusions that prevent us from understanding money’s true Innature.this
A colourful tour of the history, philosophy and mathematics of money
MARCH 2023 • PAPERBACK • ICON BOOKS Economics • 9781785789984 • Mar 2023 • £11.99 • B-format PB •
colourful tour of the history, philosophy and mathematics of money, Orrell demonstrates how everything makes much more sense when we replace our classical economic models with ones based on quantum probability – and reveals the explosive reality of what is left once the illusions are stripped away. 384pp
Quantum Economics for the Real World
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ROGER MORGAN-GRENVILLE
Fighting illness, blizzards and his own ageing body, he visits every main habitat between Lymington and Cape Wrath in an epic eight-week adventure, encountering, over and over again, the kindness of strangers and the inspiring efforts of those fighting heroically for nature. With surprising conclusions throughout, what unfolds is both life-affirming and life-changing.
‘Lyrical and evocative’ Daily Express
‘Sheer delight, a luminous portrait of a magical seabird which spans the watery globe’ Daily Mail
ROGER MORGAN-GRENVILLE was a soldier from 1978–86. In 2007, he helped to set up the charity Help for Heroes, and in 2020 he was a founding member of the conservation charity, Curlew Action. His earlier titles, Liquid Gold, Shearwater and Taking Stock, are also published by Icon.
A 1,000-Mile Walk Through a British Spring
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Fed up with bleak headlines of biodiversity loss, acclaimed nature writer Roger Morgan-Grenville sets out on a 1,000-mile walk through a British spring to see whether there are reasons to be hopeful about the natural world. His aim is to match the pace at which the oak leaves emerge, roughly 25 miles north each day.
Across a Waking Land
A veteran nature writer walks the length of Britain in pursuit of spring, and of hope
APRIL 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Travel • 9781785789762 • Apr 2023 • £20.00 • Royal HB • 256pp w/ 8pp colour plates • Territory: World • Translation rights: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
‘Charming impassionedand... a rich tribute to an extraordinary bird’ Horatio Clare
Perfect for fans of The Hare with the Amber Eyes, a sweeping and emotionally powerful history tracing the dramatic escape during the 1930s of a young Jewish woman from ViennaNazi-controlledtoShanghai
Set against a backdrop of the war in the Far East, The Box with the Sunflower Clasp is a sweeping family memoir that tells the hidden history of the Jews of Shanghai.
Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese–Californian accent, a cigarette in her hand. But when Lisbeth died, she left Rachel an intricately carved Chinese box with a sunflower clasp. Inside the box were photographs, letters and documents that led Rachel to uncover a story she had never known: that of a passionate Jewish teenager growing up in elegant Vienna, who was caught up by war, and forced to flee to Shanghai.
RACHEL MELLER
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp
A Jewish Family’s Flight to Wartime Shanghai
APRIL 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS History • 9781785789816 • Apr 2023 • £20.00 • Royal HB • 256pp w/ 8pp B/W plates • Territory: UK, EU, Comm ex Canada • Translation rights: DHH Literary
A sweeping family memoir that tells the hidden history of a young Jewish woman’s escape to Shanghai
RACHEL MELLER grew up near London, the middle daughter of Austrian Jewish refugees. The Box with the Sunflower Clasp is her first book.
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Finding Endurance Shackleton, My Father
Acclaimed South African writer Darrel BristowBovey has a deeply personal relationship with the story of Endurance and in this lyrical, loving journey into past and present, into humanity and the natural world, above and below the Antarctic ice, he revisits the famous story wondering why it seems to mean more today than ever before, and exploring our changing relationship with ourselves and the ice, and with our shared story of Drawingsurvival.
on literature, natural history, personal memoir and the thrilling epics of polar adventure, this is a celebration of the human spirit. If this story tells us anything, it’s that in the face of self-inflicted natural disaster, we can still pull off a miracle or two. 272pp
and a World Without End DARREL BRISTOW-BOVEY
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A lyrical exploration of the Shackleton story and a celebration of the human spirit
DARREL BRISTOW-BOVEY is a prize-winning screenwriter, travel writer and columnist. Born in South Africa, he studied under J.M. Coetzee and Andre Brink, and currently divides his time between Cape Town, the UK and a hillside on the Greek Peloponnese. His fascination with the Endurance expedition began as a small boy, when his father first told him that he had been south with Shackleton. He still believes him.
An incredible account of the search for, and the voyage of, Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, discovered to great international fanfare in March 2022, 106 years after it sunk in the Antarctic
Over three years he travelled from Wigan to Catalonia, Paris to Motihari, Marrakesh to Eton, and in each location explored both how Orwell experienced the place, and how the place now remembers him as a literary icon.
Beginning in Northern India, where Orwell was born in 1903, and ending in the Oxfordshire village of Sutton Courtenay, where he was laid to rest in 1950, The Orwell Tour offers an accessible and informative new biography of Orwell through the lens of place.
A deft combination of travel, history and literary criticism from a well-established Orwell expert
A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived, worked and wrote
OLIVER LEWIS is a researcher, historian and a visiting lecturer at SciencesPo in Paris, where he teaches on the life and work of George Orwell. He lives in Montgomery, Powys, on the border between England and Wales. This is his first book.
OLIVER LEWIS
Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places to have inspired and been lived in by George Orwell.
The Orwell Tour Travels through the Life and Work of George Orwell
APRIL 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Travel / Literary Studies • 9781785789618 • Apr 2023 • £20.00 • Royal HB • 304pp • Territory: World • Translation rights: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
An eye-opening account from inside an ultra-secret Customs unit
MARK PERLSTROM AND DOUGLAS WIGHT
As part of the Uniforms – the new, secret, antimoney-laundering squad – high-speed car chases, bugging homes and spying on targets was day-today Toldbusiness.byatrue
MARK PERLSTROM joined the civil service in 1983, starting in the MoD and moving to HM Customs. This is his first book.
‘An eye-opening and entertaining read throughout’ Matt Calveley, author of Cops and Horrors
insider, India Uniform Nine lays bare the intense rivalry between crime-fighting organisations and how that leads to corruption, chaos and some scarcely believable antics in the covert world.
India Uniform Nine Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit
Joining HM Customs in the early 1980s, he was quickly thrown in the deep end with Operation C-Chase, an undercover investigation that penetrated Pablo Escobar’s mighty Medellin cartel and brought down the corrupt BCCI bank.
APRIL 2023 • PAPERBACK • ICON BOOKS True Crime • 9781785788918 • Apr 2023 • £9.99 • B-format PB • 288pp • Territory: World • Translation rights: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency
’An excellent read. The author has been there and got the t-shirt, so it’s completely authentic in feel and style’ Cameron Addicott, author of The Interceptor
Mark Perlstrom is no stranger to money laundering, drug smuggling and crooked firms.
DOUGLAS WIGHT is an author, ghostwriter and journalist.
Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking is a culmination of a life spend obsessing, offering a glimpse into Marianne’s brain, but also an insight into the lives of others like her. From death to Medusa, to Disneyland to fire, to LA to her dog, the essays explore the intersection of neurodivergence, fixation and disorder, telling the story of one life underpinned and ultimately made whole by obsession. 288pp Territory:
MARIANNE ELOISE is a writer and journalist. She covers topics like TV, film, digital culture, wellness and alternative music, for outlets including The Cut, The New York Times, Courier, Vulture, i-D, Guardian and more. She lives in Brighton.
Writer and journalist Marianne Eloise was born obsessive. What that means changes day to day, depending on what her brain latches onto: fixations with certain topics, intrusive violent thoughts, looping phrases. Some obsessions have lasted a lifetime, while others will be intense but only last a week or two.
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Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
‘A candid, witty memoir ... A brave book that puts vulnerability fully on show’ Independent
‘I felt recognised on every page, learned so many new things, and laughed so hard I choked on my water. Read this!!!’ Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times
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A lyrical, witty and honest deep dive into a life laced with obsessions
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‘Incandescent’ Publishers Weekly
MICHAEL VLISMAS
APRIL 2023 • PAPERBACK • JONATHAN BALL Biography • 9781915563101 • Apr 2023 • £10.99 • B-format PB • 272pp • Territory: World ex Southern Africa • Translation rights: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
Elon Musk Risking It All
A new edition of Michael Vlismas’ eyeopening biography of Elon Musk, now with new material covering the latest in Musk’s family and business life
As an awkward Pretoria schoolboy who loved comics and science fiction, Musk’s early years and singular family background were crucial in forming his stellar ambitions. Journalist and author Michael Vlismas, who attended the same high school as Musk, knows well the environment that shaped him and offers new insights into Musk’s development, including his troubled relationship with his father.
In 2022 Elon Musk – one of the richest and best-known people on earth – made headlines worldwide with his bid to buy Twitter, and he is often in the news for his entrepreneurial exploits and his controversial tweets. Who is this boundary-pushing billionaire with grand plans of inhabiting Mars, and what lies at the heart of his vision? Why is he so utterly unafraid of risk?
MICHAEL VLISMAS is a sports journalist and broadcaster, who owns his own sports media agency. He is the author of several books including a biography of Chris Froome.
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Here Comes The Fun A Year of Making Merry
‘Aitken rivals Alan Bennett in the ear he has for an eavesdropped remark ... boy, can he write’ Daily Mail
Food fights, fishing and French cooking – bestselling author Ben Aitken’s year of actively pursuing fun
Ben Aitken wasn’t getting enough. He knew it and so did everyone else. He was grumpy, increasingly boring, mostly joyless. So, he joined a lawn bowls club. A week later, he doubled down on the doldrums by learning to dance like they do in Bollywood. Then – with an almost entirely reformed selfhood winking appealingly just around the corner – he started swimming in cold water and was back to square one.
MAY 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Memoir / Cultural Studies • 9781837730056 • May 2023 •
Despite the setbacks (and hyperventilation), it was becoming clear to him that the very pursuit of fun was a great way of not feeling naff. And so he made a vow to have as much of the f-stuff as he possibly could. £16.99
BEN AITKEN
BEN AITKEN was born under Thatcher, grew to 6ft then stopped, and is an Aquarius. He is the author of Dear Bill Bryson, A Chip Shop in Poznań (a Times bestseller), The Gran Tour (‘Both moving and hilarious’, Spectator) and The Marmalade Diaries.
ICON SUPERLEAD TITLE from the brilliant, upbeat and very funny author of A Chip Shop in Poznan, The Gran Tour and The Marmalade Diaries
Prince Charming? Happily ever after? Childhood fairy tales are full of promises, but the reality – life – is a very different story. And that story has a hell of a lot to teach us.
With honesty, humour and warmth, Christina Ford looks back on four decades of dates, loves, marriages, friendships, affairs, divorces, parenting disasters and step-parenting nightmares.
For all those who have ever wondered if there is life after divorce, sex after 40, or who have had their heart broken and questioned if they will ever find love again, this is a reaffirming rallying call that mid-life is exactly that – the middle and not the end. 320pp UK Bell Lomax Moreton
Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After CHRISTINA FORD
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CHRISTINA FORD is a former TV and film executive who crossed continents to be with a man – and you can guess how that turned out. She lives in London and documents her life in her blog A Broad in London. This is her first book.
In Search of Mr Darcy
An unfiltered dating memoir which will do for women over 40 what Dolly Alderton did for women in their twenties
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Wa State has become a real nation with its own highways, anthems, schools and flags. Its leaders promise a utopia, using profits from trafficking heroin and meth to attain what China’s other frontier peoples, Tibetans and Uighurs, can only dream of: a state of their own. Patrick Winn (author of Hello, Shadowlands) embarks on a risky journey of discovery, chasing clues about the forbidden republic from Thailand to Burma to the secretive Wa State itself. Royal HB 320pp w/ 8pp
MAY 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Current Affairs • 9781785789731 • May 2023 • £20.00 •
‘So addictive that it has me chasing down everything else he has written .... It’s hard to say what is more potent, Winn’s rich characterisation, his canny reportage or the way his interrogation of the past illuminates 21st-century Southeast Asia’ South China Morning Post on Hello, Shadowlands
PATRICK WINN is an investigative journalist who covers rebellion and black markets in South-East Asia. He has received a National Press Club award and is also a threetime winner of Amnesty International’s Human Rights Press Awards. He is currently Public Radio International’s Asia correspondent.
PATRICK WINN
The jagged mountains dividing China and Burma belong to the Wa, an indigenous group who have outwitted the CIA to create the world’s mightiest narco-state, controlling more territory than Israel and with more troops than Sweden. Are they crime lords? Or visionaries?
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In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel that Outwitted the CIA
Narcotopia
Award-winning journalist Patrick Winn reveals the inside story of a forbidden republic – the narco-state of the Wa
Over the past two decades, Wolverhampton Wanderers have gone from the heady heights of the Premier League to the dark depths of League One and back again.
Football journalists Paul Berry and Johnny Phillips draw on interviews with Wolves’ players, managers, club staff and supporters to paint a brilliantly vivid picture immortalising the fantastic highs and the desperate lows that the club has experienced over the past twenty years. £20.00
The full appraisal of the past twenty years since Wolves made their long-awaited return to the top tier of English football
MAY 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Football • 9781837730148 • May 2023 •
A rollercoaster tale of twenty years of triumph and heartache at PremiertheWanderers,WolverhamptiononeofoldestclubsintheLeague,from two highly acclaimed football journalists
PAUL BERRY AND JOHNNY PHILLIPS
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PAUL BERRY (left) is a Wolves fan with over twenty years’ experience in the world of football media, both as a journalist and within the club itself.
As one of the founding members of the Football League and one of the oldest clubs in the Premier League, Wolves have finally re-established themselves where they belong: fighting it out in the top tier of English football. And they are not going anywhere soon.
JOHNNY PHILLIPS (right) is a broadcaster, writer and lifelong Wolves supporter. He is a regular reporter on Sky Sports, documentary-maker and also pens a weekly football column.
The Rise and Rise of Wolverhampton Wanderers 2003–2023
Revolution
From acclaimed journalist Adam HayNicholls, the very first biography of rising Formula 1 star Charles Leclerc
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Few of the drivers on the F1 grid have the racing pedigree of Charles Leclerc. Now firmly established as Ferrari’s great hope, following in the footsteps of legends Alberto Ascari, Niki Lauda and Michael Schumacher, Leclerc has his eyes set on becoming world champion.
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ADAM HAY-NICHOLLS has worked in Formula 1 as a journalist since 2005. He has been the F1 correspondent for the UK’s Metro newspaper since 2006, and additionally writes about cars and luxury travel for titles which include GQ, Country Life, The Sunday Telegraph and The Sunday Times Magazine.
Born in Monaco to a family of comparatively modest means, Leclerc remembers playing with toy cars on a friend’s balcony as the best drivers in the world whizzed around the Monte Carlo circuit on the streets below. This early experience inspired him to get behind the wheel, and so began his meteoric rise in the sport.
The very first biography of rising Formula 1 star Charles Leclerc from the F1 correspondent for the UK’s Metro newspaper
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A woman’s 8,000-mile journey through South America on a bamboo bike to explore biodiversity loss and the people fighting it
MAY 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Travel • 9781785787874 • May 2023 • £20.00 • Royal HB • 336pp w/ 8pp colour plates • Territory: World ex USA & Canada • Translation rights: The BKS Agency
The Life Cycle 8,000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike
KATE RAWLES is a writer, cyclist and former university lecturer in environmental philosophy who uses adventurous journeys to raise awareness about environmental challenges. She writes for a range of publications, is a mountain and sea kayaking leader and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
On her trusty homemade bamboo bike, adventurer and environmentalist Kate Rawles takes us on a thrilling journey down the length of the Andes, from Colombia to Cape Horn, seeing for herself the destruction of the natural world being caused by human greed and desperation, but also the tireless, inspiring efforts of those courageous activists trying to reverse the damage.
From turtle sanctuaries and goldmining in Colombia through to tropical dry forests in Peru, oil drilling in Ecuador, salt flats in Bolivia and a race to the finish through Patagonia, this is an adventure story that celebrates the astonishing variety of life on Earth and why its future concerns us all.
A brilliant cycling, travel and ecology book from a brilliant and well-respected debut author
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Footmarks A Journey Into our Restless Past
DR JIM LEARY is an archaeologist at the University of York and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He has directed major excavations across Britain, including Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, the largest Neolithic monument in Europe. A passionate walker, much of his research is centred on the way people moved around in the past.
Perfect for fans of archaeology and deep history such as Thomas Halliday’s Otherlands
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This new story of our past shows that history was warm and full of life, and no doubt at times cold, dark and miserable – but it was never motionless. Footmarks will make you look at the landscape around you with fresh eyes. £18.99 Demy HB 288pp w/ 8pp colour plates
Archaeologist Jim Leary reanimates the past with this riveting ‘archaeology of movement’
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All too often we think of the past as static, ‘frozen in time’, and indeed movement is not always easy to decipher from the archaeological record. With Jim Leary’s expert eye we explore the tangible remains, from fossilised footprint tracks to prehistoric wooden trackways, ridgeways, holloways, droveways, green ways, corpse roads, and Roman roads. Isotope studies and archaeogenetics now allow us see the arduous journeys that people made across continents and oceans, proving that migration has been continuous throughout our past, an endless ebb and flow of populations.
From a practising up-andcoming archaeologist at the University of York
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Ultimately, it is a story of survival against the odds, in a country where life is cheap. UK,
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‘Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it’ Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
What’s Cooking in the Kremlin?
A truly original dive into modern Russian history, from one of our greatest nonfiction writers, Witold Szabłowski
A History of Modern Russia
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WITOLD SZABŁOWSKI is an award-winning Polish journalist and the critically acclaimed author of books including Dancing Bears and How to Feed a Dictator. Szabłowski lives in Warsaw.
A history of modern Russia told from the kitchen, the true narrative of one of the most troubling and fascinating nations on earth. We will learn of the Romonov’s last chef, whose bones were found mixed together with the Tsar’s in their woodland grave; the Ukrainian woman who survived the Great Famine and still weeps with guilt; the soldiers who roasted snails and made nettle soup as they fought back Hitler’s army; and the cook who served caviar in the Kremlin during the years of plenty under Brezhnev.
George Russell A Biography
The first biography of British Formula 1 star George Russell – published on the eve of the British Grand Prix
JUNE 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Formula 1 • 9781837730100 • Jun 2023 • £14.99 •
Sports journalist James Gray traces how George Russell has been setting the racing track alight since the age of seven and how he is now destined to become the successor to the crown of British racing. Demy 288pp Agency
JAMES GRAY is a national newspaper journalist and broadcaster with nearly a decade of experience. Starting with the Daily Express, a title with a long history of motor racing coverage, he has spent most of his career covering Formula 1, tennis, boxing and a host of other sports, now writing for the i newspaper. His first book Max Verstappen was published in 2021.
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The very first biography of George Russell by the author of the bestselling Max Verstappen
From dominating the karting tracks of East Anglia to the top of Formula 3 and Formula 2, George Russell has now fully established himself as a rising Formula 1 star. After cutting his teeth with Williams, in 2022 he signed a lucrative contract with Mercedes, highlighting the extent of his raw talent.
JAMES GRAY
At Mercedes, Russell has been confirmed as the designated successor to Lewis Hamilton. As Hamilton’s heir-apparent, will this protégé manage to follow in the footsteps of the greatest F1 driver ever?
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Short Cuts: Medicine provides the map you need to explore the latest thinking in ethics, practice, treatment and prevention. Incisive questions prompt ‘short cut’ diagnoses written by experts in their field, with each one the setting-off point for instructions to help you plot your path through the medical maze.
All titles written by experts in their fields and in easyto-follow, accessible and compelling language
With ‘one-stop’ graphics visualising a theory or idea for each topic, and ‘route map’ glossaries explaining key words and connections, Short Cuts: Medicine will help you navigate the mysteries of the modern medical world. £14.99 234mm x 156mm HB 176pp
Questions about medicine have always been central to society, but what can they tell us about our future well-being in a 21st-century world of antibiotic resistance and anti-vaxxers, organ transplants and gene therapies, miracle drugs and magic bullets?
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ADAM RODMAN is an internal medicine physician, medical educator and historian. He is also the host of award-winning medical history podcast Bedside Rounds. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons, and is a general internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.
A brand-new series from Icon: beautifully presented two-colour primers on humankind’s biggest ideas, each title providing a unique map through a subject area
ADAM RODMAN
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Does climate change affect our health? Will AI ever replace doctors?
Short Cuts: Medicine Navigate Your Way Through Big Ideas
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Short Cuts: Philosophy Navigate Your Way Through Big Ideas
With ‘one-stop’ graphics visualising a memorable theory or idea for each concept, and ‘route map’ glossaries explaining key words and their connections, Short Cuts: Philosophy will help you wrestle with the meaning of ancient and modern philosophical thought. 156mm
Philosophy • 9781785789977 • Jun 2023 • £14.99 • 234mm x
People have been asking such fundamental questions about the nature of reality for centuries, but how can they help us make sense of our existence in a 21st-century world of social media, cyber wars, cloning, artificial intelligence and virtual reality?
A brand-new series from Icon: beautifully presented two-colour primers on humankind’s biggest ideas, each title providing a unique map through a subject area
All titles written by experts in their fields, and in easyto-follow, accessible and compelling language
LAURA D’OLIMPIO
What is knowledge? What makes me, me?
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Short Cuts: Philosophy provides the map you need to travel beyond traditional foundations and explore a diverse array of deep thinkers. Soulsearching questions prompt ‘short cut’ answers written by experts in their field, with each one the setting-off point for instructions that plot a path through the philosophical landscape.
LAURA D’OLIMPIO is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Birmingham. Author of the award-winning Media and Moral Education, she is also a co-founder and co-editor of the open access Journal of Philosophy in Schools and regularly contributes to public philosophy outlets such as The Conversation, Philosophy Now and ABC Radio National’s The Philosopher’s Zone.
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From established sports journalist Ben Hunt, the very first biography of the upand-coming British driver Lando Norris
In Lando Norris, journalist Ben Hunt seeks to understand what makes Lando tick and examines how this young British driver has been raised in the mould of a champion. £14.99
BEN HUNT
Lando’s childhood reflects how even the calmest of upbringings can create an adrenaline junkie. As one of a new cohort of young drivers seeking to assert their dominance in the sport, Lando is a uniquely modern sportsman, but who nonetheless has the killer instinct to take him to the pinnacle of F1.
As the youngest ever British Formula 1 driver, Lando Norris is trailblazing his way through the world of motor racing. After signing for McLaren in 2017, he has since asserted himself as the team’s brightest talent.
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Lando Norris A Biography
The first biography of young British Formula 1 wunderkind Lando Norris, published on the eve of the British Grand Prix, from the Formula 1 lead at the Sun newspaper
JUNE 2023 • NEW TITLE • ICON BOOKS Formula 1 • 9781837730124 • Jun 2023 •
In a twenty-year career, BEN HUNT has written for every major national in the UK. He is now the Formula 1 lead at the Sun. He has worked in motorsport for eleven years (across disciplines), as well as covering Ryder Cups, Ashes tests and snooker championships.
On 28 November 1911 a retired showman died violently at his home in North London. Known to the world as Lord George Sanger, he was once the biggest name in show business, and was venerated as a national institution.
The story read like a popular crime thriller: a merciless killer; a famous victim; sensational headlines; a desperate manhunt laced with police incompetencies and a dramatic and unexpected denouement. But for over a century, questions have Weavingpersisted.inthe
‘A riveting read ... Shaw takes us into a dark story of murder and deceit with verve and insight backed with thorough research’ John Woolf, author of The Wonders
story of George’s rise to fame and the history of Britain’s entertainment industry, previously unpublished material is used reveal the true story behind the brutal crime that shocked Edwardian England.
The Killing of Lord George
The life and death of a 19th-century circus legend
JUNE 2023 • PAPERBACK • ICON BOOKS True Crime • 9781837730186 • Jun 2023 • £10.99 • B-format PB • 304pp w/ 16pp colour plates • Territory: World • Translation rights: The Susijn Agency Ltd
A Tale of Murder and Deceit in Edwardian England KARL SHAW
KARL SHAW is an author and journalist. His previous books include Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, Abject Quizzery and The First Showman. He lives in North Staffordshire.
Raising Raffi
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A Book about Fatherhood (For People Who Would Never Read Such a Book)
KEITH GESSEN was born in Moscow in 1975 and came to the United States with his family when he was six years old. He is a co-founder of the literary magazine n+1 and the author of the novels All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country. He has translated or co-translated several books from Russian, including Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich. He lives in New York with his wife, the author and publisher Emily Gould, and their two sons.
KEITH GESSEN
Written over the first five years of Raffi’s life, Raising Raffi examines the profound, overwhelming, often maddening experience of being a dad. How do you instil in your child a sense of his heritage without passing on that history’s darker sides? Is parental anger normal, possibly useful, or is it inevitably destructive? And what do you do, in a pandemic, when the whole world seems to fall apart? By turns hilarious and poignant, Raising Raffi is a story of what it means to invent the world anew. £10.99 256pp UK, EU, Canada rights: The Wylie Agency
One of the great critics and thinkers of our time turns his razor-sharp gaze to the state of fatherhood
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‘A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene’ Dwight Garner, New York Times
Keith Gessen had always assumed that he would have kids, but couldn’t imagine what parenthood would be like, nor what kind of parent he would be. Then, one Tuesday night in early June, Raffi was born, a child as real and complex and demanding of his parents’ energy as he was singularly magical.
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At the age of 61, with no farming experience, Roger Morgan-Grenville signed on as a part-time labourer on a beef cattle farm to tell their side of the story. The result is this lyrical and evocative Forbook.10,000
‘Sheer delight, a luminous portrait of a magical seabird which spans the watery globe’ Daily Mail
ROGER MORGAN-GRENVILLE was a soldier from 197886 and later helped to set up the charity Help for Heroes. He is also the author of Liquid Gold (2020), Shearwater (2021), both published by Icon. He lives in Petworth.
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years, cow and human lives have been intertwined. Cattle have existed alongside us, fed and shod us, quenched our thirst, and provided a thousand other tiny services, and yet most of us know little about them. We are also blissfully unaware of the de-natured lives we often ask them to Partlead.history,
Taking Stock A Journey Among Cows
part adventure and part unsentimental manifesto for how we should treat cows in the 21st century, Taking Stock asks us to think carefully about what we eat, and to let nature back into food production. B-format PB 368pp Territory: Agency
Part-memoir, part-nature writing, part cri de coeur, all combined with humorous anecdotes from the author’s time as a labourer on a beef cattle farm
‘Charming impassionedand... a rich tribute to an extraordinary bird’ Horatio Clare
‘Lyrical and evocative’ Daily Express
Presser went to live among Pitcairn’s 48 residents; descendants of the original mutineers, two clans bound by circumstance and secrets. There, he pieced together the island’s full story: an operatic saga that holds all visitors in its mortal clutch.
A thrilling tale of power, obsession and betrayal at the edge of the world
Going beyond the infamous mutiny on the Bounty, The Far Land offers an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, it’s not so different from our own. 352pp Territory:
In 1808, the discovery of an uncharted island in the South Pacific unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, disappeared into the night with their Tahitian Incompanions.2018,Brandon
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BRANDON PRESSER is a travel writer and ‘rough-andtough adventurer’ (Entertainment Weekly). His writing has been featured in numerous publications including Bloomberg, Harper’s Bazaar, Condé Nast Traveler and Lonely Planet.
‘The Far Land swells in the cause and effect of actions of passion. You can’t make this stuff up!’ Tom Hanks
‘A highly accomplished travel writer, Brandon Presser’s The Far Land hits a lot of my pleasure centres’ Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle
The Far Land
JULY 2023 • PAPERBACK • ICON BOOKS History • 9781785788949 • Jul 2023 • £10.99 • B-format PB •
200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific BRANDON PRESSER
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