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  • Someone Like You (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Someone Like You (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
  • Imprint: Penguin

  • Published: 13/09/2012

  • ISBN: 9781405911337

  • RRP: £0.99

Someone Like You (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

Roald Dahl

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Someone Like You is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.

In Someone Like You, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of two wartime pilots arguing over the fickle hand of fate (and the airman) . . .

Someone Like You is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, and is drawn from Dahl's own experiences during the Second World War.

This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • Published: 13/09/2012

  • ISBN: 9781405911337

  • RRP: £0.99


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Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE STORYTELLER.

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