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It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.


This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new.

So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers . . .

The Roald Dahl Classic Collection reinstates the versions of Dahl's books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions, aimed at newly independent young readers.



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His account of life as a fighter pilot in the Western Desert and in Greece has the thrilling intensity and the occasional grotesqueness of his fiction—Sunday Times

Very nearly as grotesque as his fiction. The same compulsive blend of wide-eyed innocence and fascination with danger and horror—Evening Standard

A non-stop demonstration of expert raconteurship—The New York Times Book Review

Going Solo

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    A Paperback / softback by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 30 January 2024
      ISBN-13 9780241677391
      978-0241677391
      ISBN-10 0241677394
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      Non Fiction Biography Autobiography: adventurers and explorers Autobiography: historical, political and military Autobiography: writers Books by Roald Dahl

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.


      This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new.

      So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers . . .

      The Roald Dahl Classic Collection reinstates the versions of Dahl's books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions, aimed at newly independent young readers.



      Trade Review
      His account of life as a fighter pilot in the Western Desert and in Greece has the thrilling intensity and the occasional grotesqueness of his fiction—Sunday Times

      Very nearly as grotesque as his fiction. The same compulsive blend of wide-eyed innocence and fascination with danger and horror—Evening Standard

      A non-stop demonstration of expert raconteurship—The New York Times Book Review

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