Trickery

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Information

• First editions: Penguin, 2017.

• Contains:
  • “The Wish”
  • “Beware of the Dog”
  • “The Champion of the World”
  • “The Visitor”
  • “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
  • “Rummins”
  • “Mr. Hoddy”
  • “The Hitchhiker”
  • “The Surgeon”
  • “Princess Mammalia”
• Audio Books:
  • Trickery read by Kevin Eldon, Stephen Mangan, Cillian Murphy, Derek Jacobi, Richard E. Grant, Stephanie Beacham, Jessica Hynes, Andrew Scott and Tom Felton

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Description

There’s a whole world of Dahl still to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . .

How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals that we are at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others – and, sometimes, even ourselves.

Here, among others, you’ll read of the married couple and the parting gift which rocks their marriage, the light fingered hitch-hiker and the grateful motorist, and discover why the serious poacher keeps a few sleeping pills in his arsenal.

Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl’s short stories.

Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, War, Innocence and Fear.

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Covers