My favourite short story ever would have to be Roald Dahl’s The Great Automatic Grammatizator. I read it for the first time when I was about twelve, and loved the absurdity of these two business partners producing novels in a matter of minutes on a machine. I’ve re-read the story several times since, and it…
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Roald Dahl needs no introduction. There is little left to say that hasn’t already been said about this much-loved children’s writer, however as this year marks not only the twenty-first anniversary of his death but also fifty years since the publication of James and the Giant Peach, I am compelled to say something. It would…
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