Sitting in a hut at the bottom of his garden, surrounded by odd bits and pieces such as a suitcase (used as a footrest), his own hipbone (which he'd had replaced) and a heavy ball of metal foil (made from years' worth of chocolate wrappers), Roald Dahl wrote some of the world's best-loved stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits, The Witches, The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox, James and the Giant Peach and lots more.
As frightening and funny as his fiction * New York Times Book Review * Brilliantly coloured, sometimes grotesque and sometimes magical * Sunday Times * A shimmering fabric of his yesterdays, the magic and the hurt * Observer *