Author:Roald Dahl,Kevin Eldon,Stephen Mangan,Cillian Murphy,Derek Jacobi,Richard E Grant,Stephanie Beacham,Jessica Hynes,Andrew Scott,Tom Felton
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Trickery by Roald Dahl, read by Kevin Eldon, Stephen Mangan, Cillian Murphy, Derek Jacobi, Richard E. Grant, Stephanie Beacham, Jessica Hynes, Andrew Scott and Tom Felton.
How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals that we are at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others - and, sometimes, even ourselves.
Here, among others, you'll read of the married couple and the parting gift which rocks their marriage, the light fingered hitch-hiker and the grateful motorist, and discover why the serious poacher keeps a few sleeping pills in his arsenal.
There's a whole world of Dahl still to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . .
How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals that we are at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others - and, sometimes, even ourselves.
Trickery, is the most Dahlian of the lot . . . joyously anarchic stuff, the sort of adventure you hope adult life will be full of when you're a child
—— James Marriott , The TimesThe titles are wonderfully unsettling guide to the beloved children's author's preoccupations
—— James Marriott , The TimesGripping... painful and powerful, with welcome flashes of ironic humour, too
—— John Sunyer , Financial TimesMarra creates an unnerving story of a world, then and now, dominated by untouchable authorities that operate at every social level... a writer of intelligence, wit and sensitivity, adept at telling stories that entertain but also create the sensation that they are not so strange as fiction
—— George Berridge , Times Literary SupplementA work of extraordinary confidence and empathy... a distinctive and heady fictional cocktail... thoroughly entertaining
—— Liam Hess , Literary ReviewMarra’s sharp prose is alternatively ironic and poetic, giving a sympathetic voice to the most dispossessed characters…A memorable book on memory and how we try to remember’
—— Stephen Coulson , LadyA very Russian nostalgia and sense of narrative resonate in this story of memories and how we remember, that runs from Stalin's purges to modern war-ravaged Chechnya. The lives of sympathetically voiced criminals, mercenaries, lovers and artists are interwoven in precisely crafted plotlines
—— Lady, Book of the YearAddictive
—— Michelle Dean , GuardianA superbly artful collection
—— BBC CultureRemarkable... Marra is a gifted writer with the energy and the ambition to explore the lives of characters whose experiences and whose psyches might seem, until we read his work, so distant from our own. Reading his work is like watching the restoration — the reappearance, on the page — of those whom history has erased
—— Washington PostAudacious... brilliant... ambitious and fearless
—— New York Times Book ReviewEach story is a gem… almost unbearably moving
—— New York TimesSeamlessly narrated, with flashes of dark humour
—— International New York TimesMarra’s Russia is marked by both interconnection and darkly comic irony... the book’s brilliance and humor are laced with the somber feeling that the country is allergic to evolution... A powerful and melancholy vision of a nation with long memories and relentless turmoil
—— KirkusThere’s something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh’s stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny… Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O’Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find… The dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating.
—— Victoria SadlerMoshfegh’s stories are sharp, dark and often horribly funny.
—— James Marriott , The Times