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Here's a round up of some of the latest offerings from @iconbooks and @jonathanballpublishers... - Women In The Picture - Hitler's South African Spies - Quantum Computing - American Sherlock Available online and from bookshops #Bookstagram #iconbooks #Nonfiction #BookRecommendations #books #newbooks

'While artists from Berthe Morisot to Beyonce have
'While artists from Berthe Morisot to Beyonce have opened up the underlying politics and complexities behind images of mothers, mainstream contemporary depictions of motherhood still tend to flatten out the experience of mothering into a binary of suffering or unrealistic virtue' - @womeninthepicture, author of WOMEN IN THE PICTURE 🎨🤰📸 Available now in all bookshops and online! #WomenInThePicture #CatherineMcCormack @sothebys

'Oil paint is a soothing medium that
smooths out
'Oil paint is a soothing medium that smooths out the brutality and double standards of these narratives and turns them into lessons in culture and civilization for the general public. But what other alternative histories lie buried in plain sight beneath the gilded frames, the imposing ceilings, the tasselled ropes and the protective glass surfaces that deflect proper scrutiny?' Dr. Catherine McCormack (@womeninthepicture) asks us to look again at what these images have told us to value, opening up our most loved images – from those of Titian and Botticelli to Picasso and the Pre-Raphaelites. She also shows us how women artists – from Berthe Morisot to Beyoncé, Judy Chicago to Kara Walker – have offered us new ways of thinking about women’s identity, sexuality, race and power. Women in the Picture gives us new ways of seeing the art of the past and the familiar images of today so that we might free women from these restrictive roles and embrace the breadth of women’s vision Out tomorrow! @iconbooks Available to pre-order online and from bookshops. #ArtHistory #ThePowerOfLooking #art #Artists #RepresentationsOfWomen #Feminism #artwork #bookstagram #book #WomenInThePicture

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’Historically w
** ➡️SWIPE THROUGH ➡️** ’Historically women have been denied the tools to express the range of their experiences – to exist beyond the stilling frame of the male gaze, held back from art academies, from looking at bodies or expressing themselves, supposedly for their own protection – as intellectual and creative labour was thought to run the risk of making women bad mothers, infertile or even clinically insane.’  We're ✨SO✨excited to publish Catherine McCormack's @womeninthepicture's WOMEN IN THE PICTURE later this week. In it, Catherine gives us new ways of seeing the art of the past and the familiar images of today so that we might free women from these restrictive roles and embrace the breadth of women’s vision.  Coming 6 May 2021 Pre-order your copy NOW from you local independent bookshop or online via @bookshop_org_uk #WomenInThePicture #Art #ThePowerOfLooking #NonFiction #ArtBook #Bookstagram #Books #Publishing #IndiePublisher #ChooseBookshops


Thank you for posting Once Upon A Time I Lived On
Thank you for posting Once Upon A Time I Lived On Mars on your latest reels, @natashalipman - we hope you enjoy Kate Greene's book that we published earlier this year. 'Filled with wonderment and awe … Greene’s eloquent memoir is equal parts escape and comfort.’ Publishers Weekly A powerful reflection on life in isolation, in pursuit of the dream of Mars. In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA’s first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawaii, she lived for four months in an isolated geodesic dome with her crewmates, gaining incredible insight into human behaviour in tight quarters, as well as the nature of boredom, dreams and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory. Greene draws on her experience to contemplate what makes an astronaut, the challenges of freeze-dried eggs and time-lagged correspondence, the cost of shooting for a Planet B. The result is a story of space and life, of the slippage between dreams and reality, of bodies in space, and of humanity’s incredible impulse to explore. From trying out life on Mars, Greene examines what it is to live on Earth. ‘In her thoughtful, well-written account of the mission, Greene reflects on what this and other space missions can teach us about ourselves and life on Earth.’ Physics Today Out now! #OnceUponATimeILivedOnMars #nonfiction #book #iconbooks #NASA #Hiseas #Space #Mars #astronaut #moon #literary #nonfiction

Want to join the ✊REBELLION✊ this Bank Holiday
Want to join the ✊REBELLION✊ this Bank Holiday weekend? You're in luck, as @SophieRunning's #FiveRulesForRebellion is now JUST * £1.99 * Emma Thompson described it as 'an urgent guide to action, by one of the most visionary women I've ever met' ➡️https://t.co/PR12EHsTnZ #ebook #ebookpromo #bookstagram

We are DELIGHTED that #Autopsy👨‍⚕️ by Rya
We are DELIGHTED that #Autopsy👨‍⚕️ by Ryan Blumenthal, a hair-raising account about the ins and outs of practising forensic pathology in Africa, has been longlisted for one of 🇿🇦's most prestigious literary awards🏆 Discover the full longlist here: https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/books/news/2021-04-25-sunday-timescna-literary-awards-2021-longlists

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We are THRILLED to be
❗NEW ICON PROOF ALERT❗ We are THRILLED to be publishing @katlister's memoir #TheElements this Autumn... What does it mean to become a widow at 35? In her mid-thirties Kat Lister lost her husband to brain cancer. After five years of being a wife and one of being a carer, in love and in and out of hospitals, she became a widow. In the year following his death Kat seeks refuge in stories of grief and widowhood, but struggles to find a language that can make sense of her experience and the physicality of bereavement. Instead, she turns to the elements – fire, water, earth, air – on her quest to come to terms with her grief, to inhabit her body again, and to find out who she is now. The Elements is a story of love, pain, hope and, ultimately, transformation. #Bookstagram #Memoir #September2021 #NewBook #UncorrectedProof #Galley #AdvanceReaderCopy #KatLister #ThePool #AWidowhood #Widowhood #Grief #Bereavement #LossLit #Wills #Probate #Death #Vice #Journalist #hardback #Fall2021 #Autumm2021 #2021reads #bookish #books #book #newbook


Not long to go until we publish @flimsy_kitten's Q
Not long to go until we publish @flimsy_kitten's QUARANTINE COMIX. Pre-order and get your hands on a ** free ** sticker sheet🤩 All you need to do is forward your email confirmation of ordering your copy to 📧info@iconbooks.com #quarantinecomix #cwip #cwipprize #rachaelsmith #comics #graphicmemoir #memoir #lockdown #covid19books #books #lockdowns #ukbooks #englishlockdown


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