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Category: Literature & Language

Dear Fahrenheit 451

Annie Spence

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Frankenstein’s Brain

John Sutherland

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Rooms of One’s Own

Adrian Mourby

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Yours Always

Eleanor Bass

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Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?

John Sutherland

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Is Heathcliff a Murderer?

John Sutherland

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The Brontesaurus

John Sutherland

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The Bible for Grown-Ups

Simon Loveday

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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Helena Kelly

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Fucking Apostrophes

Simon Griffin

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The Etymologicon

Mark Forsyth

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The Horologicon

Mark Forsyth

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Introducing Literary Criticism

Owen Holland

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Shakespeare on Toast

Ben Crystal

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Mark Forsyth’s Ternion Set

Mark Forsyth

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Struggling to find a gift for the bookworm in your life? What could be better than books about books! 🎁 .
Check out our Christmas gift guides in our online shop - link in bio! 🎁 We’ve got something for everyone - the history buff, the scientist, the self-care guru, Secret Santa and much more! 🎅🏼🎄
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Who else is already panicking about Christmas gift lists? ✋ Luckily, Brian Clegg is on hand with a fiendishly difficult puzzle and cipher challenge book that will make the perfect gift for any aspiring code-breaker! 🤔 .
With categories featuring everything from Literature, Art and Film, to Biology, Chemisty and Mathematics, Conundrum is the ultimate challenge any cipher brainboxes! It requires boldness, cunning, general knowledge and lateral-thinking - do you know anyone up to the challenge? 🧩
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Happy publication day to the amazing Gender: A Graphic Guide, the essential comic-book journey that will change the way you think about gender 🤩 Swipe for a sneak peek inside ➡️ .
In this unique illustrated guide, @meg_john_barker and @julesscheeleillustration travel through our shifting understandings of gender across time and space - from ideas about masculinity and femininity, to non-binary and trans genders, to intersecting experiences of gender, race, sexuality, class, disability and more.
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What bad manners fucking piss you off? 💥
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This is not a book about how to be posh. We have some slightly bigger issues to deal with these days. But we could do with learning how to be a bit nicer to each other, and learn some fucking good manners.
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Enter Simon Griffin, author of Fucking Apostrophes.
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From social media, to public transport, the environment and our neighbours, this book is the perfect gift for a manners enthusiast, or those in need of a gentle (sweary) nudge in the right direction - out 7th November, but you can preorder now! .
Check out those awesome bookmarks too, soon to be available from select Indie bookshops in the UK, plus keep your eyes open for a few chances to win some on our social media Over the next few months! Trust us, they come in very handy on public transport! .
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These books believe in you - and the power of tiny acts to make your world a better place.
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101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World 🌎, and it’s predecessor 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten You Day ☀️, by @ailbhetross are the perfect little books for anyone who wants to celebrate and strengthen their relationships, overcome stress at work, help their mental health or make a more positive impact on the world we live in. Full of simple little tips, these two books will help bring the sunshine in, even on what feels like dark days! .
Swipe through for a peek at some of the beautiful illustrations from 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World from @beckybarnicomics ✍️ .
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Feeling hungry yet? Get your tastebuds ready for HUNGRY: Eating, Road-tripping and Risking it All with René Redzepi, the Greatest Chef in the World by Jeff Gordinier @thegordinier - published in the UK next week! .

Offered the chance to accompany René Redzepi @reneredzepinoma (whose brainchild Noma has repeatedly been voted ‘Best Restaurant in the World’ on an adventure in search of the planet’s most tantalising flavours, Jeff Gordinier didn’t need to think twice. Putting the rest of his life on hold, Jeff followed René on an inspiration fuelled intercontinental odyssey to find and refine the most powerful tastes in the world. .

Hungry is a memoir, a travelogue, a vivid portrait of a chef and a chronicle of the moment when daredevil cooking became one of the most exiting and groundbreaking forms of artistry.
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It seems like Greenland has been in the news a lot recently, so it’s a good thing that this beautiful book, The Ice At the End of the World: Am Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and our Perilous Future, is published today! 🇬🇱
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Locked within that vast ‘white desert’ are some of our planet’s most profound secrets. As the Arctic climate warms, and Greenland’s ice melts at an accelerating rate, the island is evolving into an economic and climatological hub, on which the future of the world turns. .

Journalist and historian Jon Gertner reconstructs in vivid, thrilling detail the heroic efforts of the scientists and explorers who have visited Greenland over the past 150 years – on skis, sleds, and now with planes and satellites, utilising every tool available to uncover the pressing secrets revealed by the ice before, thanks to climate change, it’s too late. .
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Our amazing new catalogues are finding their way out into the world! From spy stories, and feminist art histories, to refugee stories, heartwarming beekeeping memoirs, and inspiring handbooks to rebellion, the first half of 2020 from Icon has all you’ll ever need 🤩 .
Plus, the cover for our new catalogue is inspired by our upcoming The Middle Ages: A Graphic Guide by Eleanor Janega (check her out at going-medieval.com) and illustrated by the amazing Neil Max Emmanuel. Mark your diaries for April 2020 - you won’t want to miss it! 👑
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We are delighted that Six Impossible Things by John Gribbin has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019! @theroyalsociety .
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