Roald Dahl

If you’ve got a reader who’s gone exploring with James, explored a candy factory with Charlie, loaded up a library tote with Matilda, or otherwise lived vicariously through one of Dahl’s fabulously imagined characters, one of these gifts might be the golden ticket you’ve been looking for.

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory sold more than four million copies in Britain. But Roald Dahl's life wasn't always so successful and things went wrong early on

you can't have everything, where would you put it?

Today, in celebration of his landmark centenary, we present some little-known facts about the phizz-whizzing literary legend

Born in Wales to Norwegian immigrant parents, one of the world’s most beloved children’s authors grew up speaking Norwegian at home.

Love all the Roald Dahl books, only have a few missing from my collection that I need to buy

Author Roald Dahl, as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1954. Image courtesy of Marquette University Archives. Image No.: MUA_KJP_00830ront Related images at digitalmarquette.cdmhost.com/CVV/index.html

Roald Dahl’s lovely short story The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar introduced my little girl self to the idea of ‘yoga’. It was such an exotic, unfamiliar way of being. Many years…