Icon acquires 'ground-breaking' book on masculinity

Icon Books has acquired Man Up: Surviving Modern Masculinity by journalist Jack Urwin, a book that explores the reason masculinity is “currently in crisis”. Tom Webber, commissioning editor at Icon Books, bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Juliet Pickering at Blake Friedmann to Man Up. Audible has also acquired unabridged audio rights from Pickering to publish simultaneously in June 2016. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Promotions at Blake Friedmann for Pickering, Way, Pusey and Murrell

Several promotions have been announced within the Blake Friedmann agency team, seeing Juliet Pickering, vice-head of books, and Daisy Way, currently finance manager, become directors, while James Pusey and Hana Murrell are to take up head of rights and senior rights manager roles respectively. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Icon Books scoops Mulhall's 'terrifying and timely' fascism examination

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Icon acquires widowhood memoir

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Transworld acquires motherhood memoir from Margaret Reynolds

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William Collins lands wildlife filmmaker Mustill’s debut

William Collins has acquired writer and wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill’s debut, How to Speak Whale.  Tom Killingbeck, commissioning editor at William Collins, bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Kerry Glencorse at Susanna Lea Associates in a competitive auction.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Icon signs trio of memoirs for 2020

Icon Books has snapped up three "very different but equally compelling memoirs" for 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Icon to publish ‘feminist, 21st-century visual culture manifesto’

Icon Books has acquired rights to art historian Catherine McCormack’s book, Women in the Picture, a “feminist, 21st-century visual culture manifesto”, for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Icon buys 'gripping' true tale of Ethiopian Jews' rescue

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Evans does 'happy hustle' for Icon

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Duncan Heath becomes publisher at Icon Books

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Harvill Secker buys 'stunning' literary thriller debut

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Liberation for Michael Joseph after début deal

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'Explosive' exposé about Prince Charles coming in March

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Orion Audio buys rights to backlist suspense from Peter James

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Icon signs biography of French president-elect Macron

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Sixties rock 'n' roll title snapped up by Icon

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