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Guests: Leena Normington and Philip Cotterell, Icon Books

Icon Books is an independent British publisher formed in 1992. Icon publish popular, engaging and sometimes provocative non-fiction for adults. Icon were, for a number of years, best known for a series of illustrated, witty but intelligent guides to subjects such as Freud, Postmodernism and Einstein. Originally called … for Beginners, and now Introducing ..., the series is known throughout the world and is the cornerstone of Icon’s success.

The company has moved in the past decade into more orthodox trade publishing, producing many stand-alone successes, including Mark Forsyth's bestsellers The Horologicon, The Etymologicon, and The Elements of Eloquence.

Philip Cotterell, MD

Philip was formerly Deputy MD and minority shareholder at Piatkus Books 1982-2007. Over 25 years he built up a self-financing commercial book publishing house from its beginnings in a suburban house in outer London to selling to Little Brown, a division of Hachette, the country's leading publishing group. He has been Managing Director at Icon Books since 2012.

Leena Normington, Digital Sales & Marketing Executive

Leena is a former MA Student at Warwick University and oversees all things digital at Icon Books.