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• First editions: Michael Joseph, 2016.

• Contains:
  • “The Butler”
  • “The Great Automatic Grammatizator”
  • “Royal Jelly”
  • “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”
  • “The Swan”
  • “Poison”
  • “Skin”
  • “The Princess and the Poacher”
  • “Genesis and Catastrophe”
  • “Mr. Feasey”

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From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories.

‘Cruelty has a human heart . . .’

Even when we mean to be kind we can sometimes be cruel. We each have a streak of nastiness inside us. In these ten tales of cruelty master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how and why it is we make others suffer.

Among others, you’ll read the story of two young bullies and the boy they torment, the adulterous wife who uncovers her husband’s secret, the man with a painting tattooed on his back whose value he doesn’t appreciate and the butler and chef who run rings around their obnoxious employer.

Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Cruelty is one of four books – the rest being Lust, Deception and Madness – that explore our hidden selves.

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• First editions: Michael Joseph, 2016.

• Contains:
  • “Madame Rosette”
  • “Neck”
  • “Georgy Porgy”
  • “The Visitor”
  • “The Last Act”
  • “The Great Switcheroo”
  • “B***h”
  • “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life”
  • “The Ratcatcher”
  • “Nunc Dimittis”
• Audio Books:
  • Lust read by Derek Jacobi, Gillian Anderson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Mark Heap, and Richard E Grant

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Description

From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories.

We fall not in love but in lust . . .

Lust, in all its myriad forms, consumes us. What won’t we do to achieve our heart’s desire? In these ten tales of twisted love master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how our darkest impulses reveal who we really are.

Here you’ll read a story concerning wife swapping with a sting in its tail, hear of the aphrodisiac that drives men into a frenzy, discover the last act in a tale of jilted first love and discover the naked truth of art, among others.

Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Lust is one of four books – the rest being Madness, Cruelty and Deception – that explore our hidden selves.

Covers

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• First editions: Michael Joseph, 2016.

• Contains:
  • “Edward the Conqueror”
  • “Katina”
  • “The Sound Machine”
  • “An African Story”
  • “The Landlady”
  • “Pig”
  • “The Boy Who Talked with Animals”
  • “Dip in the Pool”
  • “William and Mary”
  • “The Way Up to Heaven”
• Audio Books:
  • Cruelty read by Will Self, Adrian Scarborough, Stephanie Beacham, Andrew Scott, Richard E Grant, Tamsin Greig, Mark Heap, Juliet Stevenson and Jessica Hynes
  • Madness read by Juliet Stevenson, Cillian Murphy, Adrian Scarborough, Tamsin Greig, Stephanie Beacham and Andrew Scott

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From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories.

‘There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but madmen know’

Our greatest fear is of losing control – of our lives, but, most of all, of ourselves. In these ten unsettling tales of unexpected madness master storyteller Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go our sanity.

Among other stories, you’ll meet the husband with a jealous fixation on the family cat, the landlady who wants her guests to stay forever, the man whose taste for pork leads him astray and the wife with a pathological fear of being late.

Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Madness is one of four books – the rest being Lust, Cruelty and Deception – that explore our hidden selves.

Covers

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• First editions: Michael Joseph, 2016.

• Contains:
  • “My Lady Love, My Dove”
  • “The Mildenhall Treasure”
  • “Parson’s Pleasure”
  • “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”
  • “The Umbrella Man”
  • “The Bookseller”
  • “Vengeance is Mine, Inc.”
  • “Lamb to the Slaughter”
  • “Mr. Botibol”
  • “Man From the South”

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From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories.

‘The cruelest lies are often told in silence . . .’

Why do we lie? Why do we deceive those we love most? What do we fear revealing? In these ten tales of deception master storyteller Roald Dahl explores our tireless efforts to hide the truth about ourselves.

Here, among many others, you’ll read about how to get away with the perfect murder, the old man whose wagers end in a most disturbing payment, how revenge is sweeter when it is carried out by someone else and the card sharp so good at cheating he does something surprising with his life.

Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Deception is one of four books – the rest being Lust, Cruelty and Madness – that explore our hidden selves.

Covers

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Information

• First editions:
  • Folio Society, 2001.

• Contains:
  • Kiss Kiss
  • Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
  • Switch B***h
  • Someone Like You
  • A Second Roald Dahl Selection: Eight Short Stories

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