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Socks away! Roald Dahl’s wartime sex raids

Children's author seduced for Britain in undercover mission

He is known to the world as the author of bestselling children’s books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Yet before he became a successful writer, Roald Dahl had a very different reputation – as the sexiest British spy in America.

A ribald portrait of Dahl’s second world war years as an undercover agent attached to the British embassy in Washington emerges from the pages of a new biography that credits the writer with a very special talent for the Anglo-American special relationship.  (... more)

... Incidentally 13th September is Roald Dahl Day.

Did you know ...

His favourite colour was yellow and he adored spiders!

His total UK sales to date exceed 50 million paperbacks.

He loved oxtail soup and his favourite chocolates were Twix, Kit Kats, Rolos, Smarties, Flakes and Maltesers.

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