Roald Dahl had been a rebellious teenager, but his defiance was generally a private affair. As a schoolboy at Repton, disguised in waders, helmet, wind-jacket and goggles, he had roared noisily ...

Roald Dahl was an almost impossible man to love, said Kathryn Hughes in the London Guardian. “Crashing through life like a big, bad child,” the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author “managed to ...

Sam Anderson reviews the new Roald Dahl biography, twenty years after his death, and recaps the series of unlucky mishaps that led Dahl to write such fantastic stories: Dahl had an idyllic childhood ...