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Boy

ISBN 
9780141365534
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R215.00
Published 
April 2016
About the book: 
As a boy, all sorts of unusual things happened to Roald Dahl.
 
There was the time he and four school friends got their revenge on beastly Mrs Prachett in her sweet shop.
 
There are stories of holidays in fishing boats, African adventures and the days of tasting chocolate for Cadbury's.
 
You'll hear tales of horrible school bullies and the motor-car accident when Roald's nose was nearly sliced clean off...
 
Roald Dahl vividly shares his memories; some are funny. Some are painful. Some are unpleasant. All are true.
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About the Author

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favour of a job that would take him to ‘a wonderful faraway place’. 

In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. 

Thereafter his children’s books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.

He remains THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE STORYTELLER.

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