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Heatwave making you crave a getaway? ☀️

Your next escape might be closer to home than you think #. Get your perfectly portable paperback copy of Sh*tty Breaks: A Celebration of Unsung Cities by Ben Aitken. 🕶️

Join the author’s hilarious romp through twelve of the least popular UK city breaks as he discovers anywhere, like anyone, can be interesting and nourishing and enjoyable if approached in the right fashion. 🧳

Cheeky weekend in Sunderland anyone?

Available now!

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It’s national selfie day! 🤳🏽

Selfies have dominated social media since its conception. We are obsessed with sharing our lives online. But what if these narratives are changing who we are as people both on and offline? 📸

This August, Icon Books are publishing The Story of Your Life by Kathryn Jezer-Morton. This timely book is an exploration of how social media storytelling has transformed the way we make sense of our own experiences, and an incitement to embrace the ways our lives resist capture. 🎞️

Coming this summer! Comment or DM to secure your review copy. 📱

It’s the longest day of my year and what better way to dive into the summer months to come with Breaking Waves: Discovery, Healing and Inspiration in the Open Water by Emma Simpson. 💙

Celebrate the power of reclaiming a voice and discovering freedom through the open water. 🌊

Available now in paperback!

👔 Last minute Father’s Day gift guide 👔

Skip the socks and tie in favour of a fantastic read for the father figures in your life. And where better to find it than from Icon’s selection of non-fiction where there’s something for everyone. 🌤️

‘Astonishing’ - The Telegraph

‘Eye-opening...and unflinching’ - The Observer

When Maiwand Banayee was 16, he wanted to become a su***de bomber for the Taliban.

Growing up in Kabul amid the Afghan wars, he witnessed atrocities that no child should ever see. He escaped to a refugee camp in Pakistan, where religious militants began the gradual grooming of Maiwand and other Afghan boys. But Maiwand escaped this life. Fleeing Afghanistan, he had a life-altering crisis of faith, confidence and meaning, finding new purpose and rebuilding himself.

Delusions of Paradise offers a powerful warning about the dangers of radical religion, and is a stunning celebration of self-determination and redemption from an important new voice.

Delusions of Paradise: Escaping the Life of a Taliban Fighter by Maiwand Banayee is out now paperback.

Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis.

We need to get the art of new housing right before building more homes that, while a necessity, no one truly likes.

It’s time to be critical of where British housebuilding has lost its way in this source of hope for the future.

Where We Live by Jonathan Glancey is out now 🏘️

For our second post of Men’s Health Week, we’re sharing The Years of Travelling Anxiously by Tom Sykes which published in March this year. ✈️

Over the last twenty years, writer and academic Tom Sykes has been lucky enough to travel all over the world. But his trips have often been marred - if not ruined - by anxiety. Part travelogue, part wellbeing memoir, The Years of Travelling Anxiously aims to destigmatise and encourage conversations around mental health. 🚄

Join Tom this Men’s Health week as he unravels the causes and consequences of panic and distress, and in so doing help other anxious travellers, or indeed anyone who gets anxious about anything, wherever they go. 🧳

Available now!

Today marks the start of Men’s Health Week. Its aim is to break the stigma around health, and encourage men to seek support for their physical and mental wellbeing.

In November 2026, Icon Books are publishing What a Man is Not. Harry Carr sets out a vision of masculinity that rejects bleak worldviews and the toxic opinions of rapidly growing groups such as the manosphere. It makes a passionate case for the boys we are losing - and offers a practical, optimistic plan for getting them back.

Coming this Autumn. Comment or DM to secure your review copy!

The FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off today and we want to call all football fans to turn their eyes to a story outside the Premier League bubble ⚽️

Rescuing the Royals by sports presenter Josh Lewin offers a behind the scenes of English football; into the heart of Reading FC and its new American ownership.

This is an essential read that goes beyond the manufactured peak of the pyramid.

Microsoft’s newest quantum chip is supposedly vastly more reliable than its previous version. But how did we come to live in the Chip Age?

The Chip Age by Rakesh Kumar explores the developing technologies of its subject to explain how they have become central to today’s world.

Discover what geopolitical games may lie ahead. Publishing 16th July.