Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. He was educated in England before starting work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa, and began writing after a 'monumental bash on the head' sustained as an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. In addition to the classics Matilda , Charlie and the Chocolate and The BFG , he wrote volumes of memoir and dark short stories for adults. He worked in a tiny hut in the apple orchard of his house in Buckinghamshire until his death in 1990 at the age of 74.

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"Matilda" is finally available in a "Penguin Modern Classics" edition. Features some of Dahl's most iconic heroes and an enduringly menacing villain.