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Deception

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Deception by Roald Dahl, read by Richard Griffiths, Andrew Scott, Derek Jacobi, Mark Heap, Juliet Stevenson and Stephen Mangan.

'The cruelest lies are often told in silence . . .'

Why do we lie? Why do we deceive those we love most? What do we fear revealing? In these ten tales of deception master storyteller Roald Dahl explores our tireless efforts to hide the truth about ourselves.

Collected together for the first time, stories include My Lady Love, My Dove, Mildenhall Treasure, The Parson's Pleasure, Henry Sugar, The Umbrella Man, The Bookseller, Vengeance is Mine Inc., Lamb to the Slaughter, Mr Botibol and Man from the South.

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Critic reviews

From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories
One of the most widely read and influential writers
The absolute master of the twist in the tale
All stars
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Excellent stories.
Well read and performed by good actors
I did not know any of Roald Dahl's adult fiction...so this was a good surprise!.

Great stories

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I grew up reading his stories so finding these collections exciting, loved this each night to listen too, realy enjoyed each delicious story of wicked tales of deceit very haunting

very wicked tales

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Book of short stories which I thoroughly enjoyed, I remember a few of the stories from a television programme called Tales of the Unexpected.

Thoroughly enjoyed

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Now I see where Tarantino got his idea for the "Four rooms"! Going to check out other Dahl books.

A classic!

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Dahl handles the theme of Deception and it’s various guises well across this collection of his stories. Some stories are more exciting than others, with the all-time classics ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ and ‘Man from the South’ being the standouts, showing true mastery of the short story form. Some fantastic actors provide narration which really do the material justice.

Dahl and Delicious Deception

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