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• First editions:
  • Heinemann / Octopus, 1986.

• Contains:
  • Kiss Kiss
  • Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
  • Switch B***h
  • Someone Like You
  • My Uncle Oswald

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• First editions: Penguin, 2017.

• Audio Books:
  • War read by Dan Stevens, Cillian Murphy, Sophie Okonedo, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Stephen Mangan

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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 . . .

In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl’s time as a fighter pilot in the Second World War as well as seven other tales of conflict and strife, Dahl reveals the human side of our most inhumane activity.

Among other stories, you’ll read about the pilot shot down in the Libyan desert, the fighter plane that vanishes inside a mysterious thick white cloud and the soldier who returns from war but has been shockingly changed by his experiences.

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, Trickery, Innocence and Fear.

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• 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.

Covers

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Information

• First editions: Penguin, 2017.

• Audio Books:
  • Fear read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kevin Eldon, Tom Felton and Rory Kinnear

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Description

A collection of deliciously dark ghost stories for adults, picked by Roald Dahl himself . . .

Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl, these terrible tales of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering with fear as you turn the pages.

They include such timeless and haunting stories as Sheridan Le Fanu’s “The Ghost of a Hand,” Edith Wharton’s “Afterward,” Cynthia Asquith’s “The Corner Shop” and Mary Treadgold’s “The Telephone.”

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 featuring his own stories: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and War.

Covers

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Information

• First editions: Penguin, 2017.

• Audio Books:
  • Innocence read by Dan Stevens, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Tasmin Greig and Andrew Scott

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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 . . .

What makes us innocent and how do we come to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling of Roald Dahl’s boyhood and youth as well as four further tales of innocence betrayed, Dahl touches on the joys and horrors of growing up.

Among other stories, you’ll read about the wager that destroys a girl’s faith in her father, the landlady who has plans for her unsuspecting young guest and the commuter who is horrified to discover that a fellow passenger once bullied him at school.

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, Trickery, War and Fear.

Covers