Someone Like You (CD-Audio)

Roald Dahl (author), Richard E. Grant (read by), Juliet Stevenson (read by), Stephen Mangan (read by), Richard Griffiths (read by), Adrian Scarborough (read by), Tamsin Greig (read by), Derek Jacobi (read by), Will Self (read by), Jessica Hynes (read by)

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CD-Audio Published: 13/09/2012

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Penguin Audiobooks presents a brand new recording of Someone Like You, Roald Dahl's first collection of his world famous dark and sinister adult stories, brought to life by an all-star cast including Julian Rhind-Tutt, Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig, Derek Jacobi, Richard Griffiths, Willl Self, Jessica Hynes, Juliet Stevenson, Adrian Scarborough and Richard E. Grant.A wife serves a dish that baffles the police; a harmless bet suddenly becomes anything but; a curious machine reveals a horrifying truth about plants; and a man lies awake waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach.Through vendettas and desperate quests, bitter memories and sordid fantasies, Roald Dahl's stories portray the strange and unexpected, sending a shiver down the spine.Stories include: Taste, Lamb to the Slaughter, Man from the South, The Soldier, My Lady Love, My Dove, Dip in the Pool, Galloping Foxley, Skin, Poison, The Wish, Neck, The Sound Machine, Nunc Dimittis, The Great Automatic Grammatizator, Claud's Dog.Also published in paperback, ebook, and as digital audiobooks.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780718159436
Weight: 262 g
Dimensions: 143 x 137 x 24 mm
Edition: Unabridged edition

MEDIA REVIEWS

The absolute master of the twist-in-the-tale * Observer *
Roald Dahl is one of the few writers I know whose world can accurately be described as addictive. Through his tales runs a vein of macabre malevolence, the more effective because it springs from slight, almost inconsequential everyday things. The result is a black humour of the most sophisticated kind * Irish Times *
Fantastic as Grimm, heartless as Saki * Guardian *

Roald Dahl

The world’s number one storyteller, Roald Dahl was a prolific writer, creating some of the most well-known and well-loved characters in English literature, including the BFG, Willy Wonka and the Enormous Crocodile. Roald Dahl was also man of many faces - top children's author, sometime screenwriter (including, famously, the screenplay the James Bond spectacular You Only Live Twice) and a master of genre-defining 'twist in the tale' short-stories, a format he honed to glittering effect in a number of anthologies including the darkly memorable Kiss, Kiss.

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