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In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa.

'They   did not think for one moment that they would find anything but a   burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton, and they were astounded when   they came upon my still-breathing body lying in the sand nearby.' In   1938 Roald Dahl was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in   Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far  more  excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second  World  War led him to join the RAF. His account of his experiences in  Africa,  crashing a plane in the Western Desert, rescue and recovery  from his  horrific injuries in Alexandria, flying a Hurricane as Greece  fell to  the Germans, and many other daring deeds, recreates a world as  bizarre  and unnerving as any he wrote about in his fiction.
 
'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 Review Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda,   and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short  stories  for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been  filmed  and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Going solo

Oubliez tout ce que vous pensiez savoir sur les sorcières, leur balai ridicule et leur chapeau pointu et dépêchez-vous d'ouvrir ce livre pour apprendre à les reconnaître. Car il va falloir faire vite : la grandissime sorcière prépare un plan diabolique pour passer tous les enfants à la moulinette ! Heureusement, une drôle de grand-mère et son petit-fils rusé comptent bien déjouer leurs plans. Mais attention, au moindre faux pas, ils pourraient finir frrrits comme des frrrites !

Sacrées sorcières - En bonus : deux chapitres inédits !

Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants-rather than the BFG-she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!

Le Bon Gros Géant

Les histoires qu'invente Roald Dahl, on a envie, après les avoir lues, de courir les raconter à tout le monde. Comme si on les avait vécues ou rêvées soi-même. Au service de cette suite de situations plus ou moins macabres, Roald Dahl met une chatoyante érudition. Qu'il nous parle, juste le temps qu'il faut, de chirurgie, de meubles d'époque, d'apiculture, de musique, de métempsycose ou de braconnage, qu'il emprunte le style " cinéma " ou qu'il pastiche Voltaire, c'est toujours avec le même souci du détail, le même sérieux pince-sans-rire, le même humour noir déguisé.

Kiss Kiss

Dans la vallée vivent trois riches fermiers, éleveurs de succulentes volailles. Boggis, Bunce, Bean, le gros, le petit, le maigre, laids comme des poux, sont mesquins, avares et méchants et chacun dans le voisinage les craint - tout particulièrement les enfants et les animaux. Or, au-dessus de la vallée, dans le bois, une famille de renards a établi son terrier. Maître Renard, Dame Renard et leurs quatre renardeaux affamés et malins ont trouvé un astucieux moyen de se ravitailler : Maître Renard va tranquillement se servir dans les poulaillers des trois compères. Dindes dodues et tendres poulets figurent ainsi tous les soirs au menu. Mais les trois grigous méditent une terrible vengeance...

Fantastique maitre Renard

George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs . . .

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