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In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look horrifying.

SNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . . . On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said. I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back.

"Up there with Skandar and Impossible Creatures. An absolute triumph!

A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing village at the end of the world. A lake that is drying up and, ominously, pushing out its banks.

Perfect for fans of Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer – tightly plotted, emotionally gripping and a brilliant sense of place and period.

Berlin, 1946. Everything is in short supply.

New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich pulls back the curtain on the most volatile, complex, and bizarre corporate takeover in history: Elon Musk's acquisition and subsequent occupation of Twitter.

Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall Street to its Knees.

CONTENTS

Prince Bayaya The Firebird and the clever vixen Mahulena, the beautiful maiden Sternberg About a magic napkin, hat and shoes

Interspersed with Jewish jokes, this is an “entertaining perusal of life and writings of the legendary rabbi Loew of Prague” (Jonathan Magonet in European Judaism), discovering him to be a surprising precursor of modern ethics, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, transpersonal psychology.

Post-communist Central Europe viewed as an unwitting comedy trying to take itself seriously. How much of Marx is left in its behaviour? When will it stop blaming everything on everyone else? How long will it take to become normal?

This little booklet brings the famous Czech philosopher.

The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found murdered in his room, with a rope around his neck.