Going Solo

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The second part of Roald Dahl’s remarkable life story, following on from Boy. When he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa – and a series of dangerous adventures began. From tales of plane crashes to surviving snake bites, this is Roald Dahl’s extraordinary life before becoming the world’s number one storyteller.His account of life as a fighter pilot in the Western Desert and in Greece has the thrilling intensity and the occasional grotesqueness of his fiction—Sunday Times

Very nearly as grotesque as his fiction. The same compulsive blend of wide-eyed innocence and fascination with danger and horror—Evening Standard

A non-stop demonstration of expert raconteurship—The New York Times Book ReviewQuentin Blake is one of Britain’s most successful illustrators. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl’s favourite illustrator. He has won many awards including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal and taught for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art. In 1999 he became the first ever Children’s Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year’s Honours.GB

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