Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie: The World's Most Unusual Museums

'There isn't a cockroach I don't like, not even a dead one.' Michael Bohdan, Cockroach Hall of Fame 'I wasn't interested in collecting stamps.' Sigurdur Hjartarson, curator of the Icelandic Phallological Museum     'Artists who make it into the MOBA portraiture collection are oft visited by a unique, possibly extraterrestrial muse. Maybe one with rabies.' Museum of Bad Art w…

Dear All ... A Collection of Round Robins

Always over-informative, often overwrought and occasionally offensive, the Christmas round robin is a modern curse. Under the guise of retaining friendship, the desire to boast, beleaguer and bore runs amok, creating unintentional hilarity. Naturally our own missives are a wry, tongue-in-cheek, post-modernist, self-aware, witty-but-wise take on a life well-lived. We project ourselves and what we w…

Do You Think You're Clever? The Oxbridge Questions

A wonderful collection of oddly brilliant questions and answers taken from the infamously challenging Oxbridge interviews. 'What happens if I drop an ant?' 'What books are bad for you?' 'What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?' The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can te…

Do You Think You're Clever? The Oxbridge Questions (EBOOK:EPUB)

A wonderful collection of oddly brilliant questions and answers taken from the infamously challenging Oxbridge interviews. 'What happens if I drop an ant?' 'What books are bad for you?' 'What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?' The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can te…

Do You Think You're Clever? The Oxbridge Questions (EBOOK:PDF)

A wonderful collection of oddly brilliant questions and answers taken from the infamously challenging Oxbridge interviews. 'What happens if I drop an ant?' 'What books are bad for you?' 'What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?' The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can te…

Do You Think You’re Clever?: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions (PAPERBACK)

Why can’t you light a candle in a spaceship? What books are bad for you? Is feminism dead? Every year interviewees for Oxford and Cambridge colleges are posed such curious conundrums, aimed at separating the merely bright from the truly clever. Providing dazzling responses to 60 of these infamously perplexing problems, Do You Think You’re Clever? explores the twisting paths your mind…

Every Woman's Book of Love and Marriage and Family Life

  THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK. Please email info@iconbooks.co.uk if you would like more information. Every Woman's Luck Book was Icon's surprise hit of Christmas 2002 Marriage! Is there anything in the world that could make a girl more happy? From courtship to the patter of tiny feet and beyond, here is the essential guide to married life. What does hubby need after a hard day's…

Every Woman's Luck Book

"Mrs Beeton meets Bridget Jones...Briming with firm yet bonkers advice on how to choose your man." The Big Issue "This bonkers, reissued 30s guide might not have solved our dating dilemmas but it certainly made us laugh out loud." Elle "An entertaining journey into a lost world of romance where men proposed on bended kness and women swooned." Cosmopolitan "When did you last read a gu…

Football Freaking: Surreal Sums Behind the Beautiful Game

Did you know that Estonia once managed to beat Scotland without even turning up? That the Cote d'Ivoire has the most expensive team? And why Dutch defender Winston Bograde is paid twice what Real Madrid pays Beckham, Ronaldo and Zidane combined? Gary Rimmer's unique Number Freaking technique unearths the real truth behind the beautiful game. Discover: How many German police officers awai…

For Whom The Bell Tolls (EBOOK: EPUB)

Martin Bell OBE has been many things – an icon of BBC war reporting, Britain’s first independent MP for 50 years, a UNICEF ambassador, and ‘the man in the white suit’ – a tireless campaigner for honesty and accountability in politics. But as his new book reveals, he’s also a poet of light verse, and here Bell’s poems continue his war by other means…