Roald Dahl

Boy and Going Solo is the whole of Roald Dahl's extraordinary autobiography in one volume. Roald Dahl wasn't always a writer. Once he was just a schoolboy. Have you ever wondered what he was like growing up? In BOY you'll find out why he and his friends took revenge on the beastly Mrs Pratchett who ran the sweet shop. He remembers what it was like taste-testing chocolate for Cadbury's and he even reveals how his nose was nearly sliced off. Then in GOING SOLO you'll read stories of whizzing through the air in a Tiger Moth Plane, encounters with hungry lions, and the terrible crash that led him to storytelling. Roald Dahl tells his story in his own words - and it's all TRUE. And now you can listen to all of Roald Dahl's novels for children on Roald Dahl Audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Also look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits.

Boy and Going Solo

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But I doubt very much if you would entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife

My sisters shrieked with laughter when I appeared. He can't go out in those!' they cried. He'll be arrested by the police!"

"I hate figures. Figures are probably the dreariest things on this earth."

"Then why do you teach mathematics, sir," somebody asked him. 

"I don't," he said, smiling slyly. "I only pretend to teach it."

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours and nothing is fabulous any more. But it was a very different matter in 1934.

It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him

"What is wrong with Egypt?" the Director asked me again. 

"It's.. it's... it's," I stammered, "it's too dusty, sir."

I was off to the land of plam-trees and coconuts and coral reefs and lions and elephants and deadly snakes, and a white hunter who had lived ten years in Mwanza had told me that if a black mamba bit you, you died within the hour writhing in agony and foarning at the mouth. I couldn't wait.

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