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Tales Of The Unexpected: The Dark Side Of Bedtime Stories

Posted at 6:31AM Monday 06 Sep 2010

"A terrible wrathful man, with a slow fuse burning in one end of his belly and a stick of dynamite in the other." That was how Roald Dahl described his long-term American publisher Alfred Knopf in the New York Times in 1983 – but it could easily have applied to himself.

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