JANUARY–JUNE 2010 ICON AND WIZARD BOOKS CORINTHIAN BOOKS
Icon Books, Wizard Books and Corinthian Books new titles catalogue January - June 2010
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New books - and books new into paperback - from British independent book publisher Icon Books, and it's children's and sports imprints Wizard and Corinthian, published between January and June 2010
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january–june 2010
ICOn anD WIZarD BOOKS COrInTHIan BOOKS
Welcome to Icon, Wizard and Corinthian Books’ taster catalogue for the first half of 2010.For further details on
any title, please see
www.iconbooks.co.uk/
catalogue
From jane Goodall’s
profound Hope for Animals
and Their World, a deeply
thoughtful look at species
facing extinction, to David
Orrell’s Economyths, a
must-read exploration of the
amazing thinking currently
revolutionising economics,
we’ve a season’s list for
all tastes.
1
New TiTle
9781848311251
UK £14.99
CANAdA $30.00
Demy format 320 pages
with an 8-page colour photo section
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Icon Books / Marsh Agency
Us riGHTsIcon Books /
Carol Mann Agency
A mesmerising, epic voyage into the beautiful and mysterious heart of modern-day Uzbekistan
hIStory / trAvel januaryHBK
ICOn BOOKS
2
New TiTle
9781848311343
UK £17.99
royal format 416 pages with two 16-page colour photo sections
UK & Commonwealth, ex. Canada
TrANslATioN riGHTsGrand Central Publishing
Us riGHTsGrand Central Publishing
From the world’s most famous primatologist: a moving, personal and uplifting insight into the struggle against extinction
january NAtUrAl hIStory HBK
ICOn BOOKS
3
New iN PAPerbACK
9781848311244
UK £8.99
CANAdA $18.00
B format 336 pages
UK & Commonwealth
TrANslATioN riGHTs
lorella Belli literary Agency
Us riGHTslorella Belli
literary Agency
Sylvia Browne, Diane lazarus and Derren Brown star in this journey into the ultimate unknown: the future. ‘A read so
digestible you could dunk it in your morning coffee.’ London Lite
PoPUlAr PSyCholoGy / trAvel januarypBK
ICOn BOOKS
4
PAPerbACK oriGiNAl
9781848311473
UK £14.99
Demy format 432 pages with occasional b/w photographs
UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada
TrANslATioN riGHTsMetropolitan Books
Us riGHTsMetropolitan Books
A riveting tale of the hubris of henry Ford and his unrealised utopian city in the dark heart of the Amazonian jungle
February hIStory pBK
ICOn BOOKS
5
PAPerbACK oriGiNAl
9781906850111
UK £12.99
CANAdA $25.00
Demy format 288 pages with an
8-page colour photo section
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Agencia literaria ACer
Us riGHTs Icon Books / Carol Mann
Agency
A unique biography of the world’s most talented footballer by the renowned author of Torres, featuring exclusive material
and interviews with his family, coaches, teammates ... and Messi himself
SPort / BIoGrAPhy FebruarypBK
COrInTHIan
6
New ComPACT ediTioN
9781848311145
UK £6.99
CANAdA $10.99
Us $9.95
A format 176 pages with b/w illustrations throughout
World
TrANslATioN riGHTs Icon Books / Marsh Agency
An innovative Introducing graphic guide to the world’s third-largest religion
February relIGIoN pBK
ICOn BOOKS
7
New ComPACT ediTioN
9781848311152
UK £6.99
CANAdA $10.99
Us $9.95
A format 176 pages
with b/w illustrations throughout
World
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Icon Books / Marsh Agency
A brilliant graphic guide to the life and work of the world’s greatest-ever playwright,
written by renowned Shakespeare scholar Nick Groom
lIterAtUre FebruarypBK
ICOn BOOKS
8
New ediTioN
9781848311121
UK £5.99
CANAdA $12.00
B format 320 pages with occasional b/w illustrations
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTsMarsh Agency
A new edition of the Fighting Fantasy classic. Discover who you really are in order to overcome a monstrous curse ...
February GAMeBooKS pBK
WIZarD BOOKS
9
New ediTioN
9781848311138
UK £5.99
CANAdA $12.00
B format 208 pages with
occasional b/w illustrations
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Marsh Agency
A new edition of the Fighting Fantasy classic. you must survive the treacherous Port Blacksand
if you are to defeat the terrifying Zanbar Bone.
GAMeBooKS FebruarypBK
WIZarD BOOKS
10
New TiTle
9781848311268
UK £17.99
CANAdA $36.00
royal format 288 pages. Full colour throughout; colour pull-out inside back cover
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs Icon Books / Marsh Agency
Us riGHTs Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency
A unique, enchanting and utterly original oral and visual history of an ‘average’ British woman’s life, told through a hand-sewn tapestry. Full colour throughout.
march hIStory / BIoGrAPhy HBK
ICOn BOOKS THe GIrl On THe Wallone life’s rich tapestry
Jean Baggott
11
PAPerbACK oriGiNAl
9781848310742
UK £14.99
CANAdA $30.00
Demy format 640 pages
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Icon Books / Marsh Agency
Us riGHTs Icon Books /
Carol Mann Agency
the latest in the 365 series: from the Ancient Greeks to the bloody twentieth century, a year’s stories of the heroism,
valour and horror of warfare
MIlItAry hIStory marchpBK
ICOn BOOKS
12
New iN PAPerbACK
9781848311275
UK £8.99
B format 336 pages
UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada and ANZ
TrANslATioN riGHTs St Martin’s Press
Us riGHTs St Martin’s Press
Sandra harmon’s ugly, from-the-streets story of crime, family, conspiracy and the ultimate betrayal. ‘A punchy account of a poisonous familial relationship’ Daily Express
march trUe CrIMe pBK
ICOn BOOKS
13
New iN PAPerbACK
9781848311350
UK £12.99
CANAdA $26.00
B format 992 pages with 16
pages of colour illustrations and b/w illustrations
throughout
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Icon Books / Marsh Agency
Us riGHTs oxford University
Press
Michael Steen’s magisterial ‘fascinating musical tour of 350 years of european history’ (Eastern Daily Press)
in B format for the first time
MUSIC / hIStory marchpBK
ICOn BOOKS
14
New TiTle
9781848311374
UK £14.99
Demy format 288 pages
UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada
TrANslATioN riGHTsDoubleday USA
Us riGHTsDoubleday USA
the latest science that proves how brilliance lurks in all of us
april SCIeNCe HBK
ICOn BOOKS
15
New iN PAPerbACK
9781848311282
UK £8.99
CANAdA $18.00
B format 256 pages
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Icon Books / Marsh Agency
Us riGHTsIcon Books /
Carol Mann Agency
With brand-new material for the paperback, Martin Bell’s damning indictment of the expenses scandal
and his suggestions for a new way forward in British politics will resonate for years.
PolItICS aprilpBK
ICOn BOOKS
16
New ComPACT ediTioN
9781848311169
UK £6.99
CANAdA $10.99
Us $9.95
A format 176 pages with b/w illustrations throughout
World
TrANslATioN riGHTsIcon Books / Marsh Agency
A superb graphic guide to the shockwave of innovations that hit art, architecture, music, cinema and literature during the early and mid-twentieth century
april PhIloSoPhy pBK
ICOn BOOKS
17
New ComPACT ediTioN
9781848311176
UK £6.99
CANAdA $10.99
A format 176 pages with b/w
illustrations throughout
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Icon Books / Marsh Agency
Jonathan Miller and Borin van loon’s classic Introducing graphic guide to the father of evolutionary theory,
in the new compact format
SCIeNCe aprilpBK
ICOn BOOKS
18
New TiTle
9781848311183
UK £5.99
CANAdA $12.00
B format 320 pages with occasional b/w illustrations
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTsMarsh Agency
A brand-new title for the immortal gamebook series. As a wandering ghost can you find out who murdered you and recover your life and your kingdom?
april GAMeBooKS pBK
WIZarD BOOKS
19
New ediTioN
9781848311190
UK £5.99
CANAdA $12.00
B format 240 pages
with occasional b/w illustrations
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Marsh Agency
A new edition of a recent Fighting Fantasy bestseller.An undead pirate and his ghastly crew are the scourge
of the seas. only you can end his evil!
GAMeBooKS aprilpBK
WIZarD BOOKS
20
PAPerbACK oriGiNAl
9781848311480
UK £12.99
Demy format 256 pages
UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada
TrANslATioN riGHTs Icon Books / Marsh Agency
Us riGHTsrobert lecker Agency
From the failure of wealth to make us happier to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, Economyths reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all.
may eCoNoMICS / BUSINeSS pBK
ICOn BOOKS
21
New TiTle
9781848311299
UK £12.99
238mm x 187mm 160 pages, full colour
throughout
UK & eire
TrANslATioN riGHTsIvy Press
Us riGHTsFall river Press
A full-colour, superbly designed whistle-stop tour through mankind’s biggest scientific ideas.
Foreword by Astronomer royal Martin rees.
SCIeNCe mayHBK
ICOn BOOKS
22
PAPerbACK oriGiNAl
9781848310513
UK £8.99
CANAdA $18.00
B format 228 pages
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTsIcon Books / Marsh Agency
Us riGHTsIcon Books / Carol Mann Agency
In a General election year, a call-to-arms against apathy that explains how to make politics work for you
may PolItICS pBK
ICOn BOOKS
23
New iN PAPerbACK
9781848311305
UK £8.99
B format 272 pages
UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Icon Books / Marsh Agency
Us riGHTsliterary and
Creative Artists Inc
From the lizards who do push-ups to seduce a mate to the elephants who mimic passing trucks to stave off loneliness:
a truly incredible portrait of animals’ inner worlds
NAtUrAl hIStory / SCIeNCe maypBK
ICOn BOOKS
24
New iN PAPerbACK
9781906850104
UK £8.99
CANAdA $18.00
B format 304 pages with 100 b/w photos
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTsIcon Books / Marsh Agency
Us riGHTsIcon Books / Carol Mann Agency
From cricket’s test Match Special commentator and times journalist comes his definitive list of the game’s greatest-ever players, updated following england’s Ashes victory
may SPort pBK
COrInTHIan
25
New iN PAPerbACK
9781848311312
UK £8.99
B format 320 pages with
an 8-page colour photo section
UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Diane Banks Associates
Us riGHTs Diane Banks
Associates
A thrilling history of radical upheaval and a bitter power struggle in the ancient world, from ‘real-life Indiana Jones’
(Sunday Mirror) Michael Scott
ANCIeNt hIStory junepBK
ICOn BOOKS
26
New iN PAPerbACK
9781848311329
UK £8.99
CANAdA $18.00
B format 224 pages
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs Icon Books / Carol Mann Agency
Us riGHTsIcon Books / Marsh Agency
What happens when I drop an ant? Discover how to really think with 60 dazzling answers to some very strange questions.
june hUMoUr pBK
ICOn BOOKS
27
New iN PAPerbACK
9781848311336
UK £8.99
B format 304 pages
UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada and ANZ
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Broadway
Us riGHTs Broadway
real-life medical mysteries from the doctor whose New York Times magazine column is the basis of the hit tv show
House, M.D. ‘Fantastic stuff’ hugh laurie
SCIeNCe / MeDICINe junepBK
ICOn BOOKS
28
New ComPACT ediTioN
9781848311206
UK £6.99
CANAdA $10.99
Us $9.95
A format 176 pages with b/w illustrations throughout
World
TrANslATioN riGHTsIcon Books / Marsh Agency
A brilliant Introducing graphic exploration of the physics and philosophy of time
june PhIloSoPhy pBK
ICOn BOOKS
29
New ComPACT ediTioN
9781848311213
UK £6.99
CANAdA $10.99
Us $9.95
A format 176 pages with
b/w illustrations throughout
World
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Icon Books / Marsh Agency
A graphic guide to the key ideas – and the remarkable individuals who fought for them – of womens’ struggle against
oppression from the 17th century to the present day
GeNDer StUDIeS junepBK
ICOn BOOKS
30
New ediTioN
9781848311220
UK £5.99
CANAdA $12.00
B format 224 pages with occasional b/w illustrations
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTsMarsh Agency
A new edition of a Fighting Fantasy classic. In a spine-chilling haunted house, can you make it through the night without being scared ... to death?
june GAMeBooKS pBK
WIZarD BOOKS
31
New ediTioN
9781848311237
UK £5.99
CANAdA $12.00
B format 224 pages with occasional b/w
illustrations
World ex. USA
TrANslATioN riGHTs
Marsh Agency
A new edition of a recent Fighting Fantasy bestseller. there is treasure out there beyond your wildest dreams, but reaching it
is an impossible task. Dare you try?
GAMeBooKS junepBK
WIZarD BOOKS
32
New TiTle
9781848310896
UK £25.00
230 x 140mm 1300 pages with colour illustrations throughout
UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada
A stunning, luxury guide to the world’s greatest golf courses, published in association with rolex
june SPort / trAvel HBK
ICOn BOOKS
33
icon backlist highlights
9781848310353
9781848310490
9781848310674
9781906850074
9781848310797
9781906850067
9781906850050
9781848310704
9781848310803
34
icon backlist highlights
9781848310827
9781906850005
9781840466751
9781848310810
9781848310308
9781840468731
9781848310469
9781840468465
9781840469417
35
9781848310759
9781848310773
9781848310766
9781848310780
Fighting Fantasy backlist
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buddha9781848310117capitalism9781848310551chaos9781848310131critical theory9781848310599ethics9781848310087Foucault9781848310605Fractals9781848310872Freud9781840468519islam9781848310841jung9781848310100keynes9781848310650linguistics9781848310889logic9781848310124marxism9781848310582mind & brain9781840468540nietzsche9781848310094philosophy9781840468533postmodernism9781840468496psychology9781840468526Quantum theory9781840468502relativity9781848310575sociology9781848310858statistics9781848310568stephen hawking9781848310940wittgenstein9781848310865
compact backlist
www.introducingbooks.com
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compact backlist sales and distribution
Icon are part of the Independent Alliance and distributed in the UK by tBS.
enquires to [email protected]; orders to [email protected]
Please see www.iconbooks.co.uk/trade for full contact details
throughout the UK and the world.
rights
translation rights: www.marsh-agency.co.uk
USA: [email protected]
www.iconbooks.co.uk
www.iconbooks.co.uk/wizard
www.corinthianbooks.co.uk
Icon Books ltd
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39–41 North road
london N7 9DP
tel: +44 (0) 207 697 9695
email: [email protected]
www.introducingbooks.com
FInD OuT MOre OnlIne:
www.iconbooks.co.uk
www.iconbooks.co.uk/wizard
www.corinthianbooks.co.uk
Cover image:
Front cover - detail from A Carpet Ride to Khiva
© estuary english. Image © Corbis
Back cover - detail from The Lives and Times of
the Great Composers © Ghost. Image © Corbis
Catalogue design: Out of House
www.outofhouse.co.uk
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