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*A Short History of the Apocalypse: your comprehensive guide to the challenges of Armageddon* Join Frankie Boyle (Saturday Night Swindle; Celebrity Vengeance) and Charlie Skelton (head writer: Ad Naseum; David Suchet's News Sachet) as they debrief time traveller and bon vivant from the late 21st...

The ‘bonkers’ book that 'it is impossible not to be moved by' DAILY MAIL A joyful and hilarious tale of some very spirited septuagenarians as they overcome innumerable obstacles to save their beloved mutt from a heartless exterminator in a land where bureaucracy reigns above all else...

A heartwarming novel about the surprise of second chances in the autumn of your life. Gor is keeping busy. He has a magic show to rehearse, his new assistant to get in line and a dacha in dire need of weeding. But he keeps being distracted by a tapping on his window – four floors up. Is old...

"On enterrait un beau matin l'assesseur de collège Kirille Ivanovitch Vavilonov, mort de deux maladies fort répandues en notre pays : une méchante femme et l'alcoolisme." "L'Orateur" est une nouvelle humoristique d'Anton Tchekhov publiée pour la première fois en 1886 dans la revue Les Éclats. C'est l'enterrement de Vavilonov, et en dernière minute, on demande à Zapoïkine de tenir un discours. Il arrive et se lance, mais rapidement on se demande pourquoi il fait l'éloge de Prokofi au lieu de Vavilonov.