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His work sessions were very strict—he worked from 10 until 12 every day and then again from 3 until 5 every day. Dahl moved there from New York City in with his first wife, actress Patricia Neal, and lived there until his death 36 years later in Matilda, like most brilliant children, is a great reader. Her family of TV-watching halfwits finds this passion both disgusting and upsetting, so when her mother is off playing bingo in Aylesbury, Matilda—four years and three months old—walks herself down to the town library , where she can spend "two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cosy corner devouring one book after another.
Dahl had to write Matilda twice. Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it. Occasionally she made Bovril or Ovaltine. It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad.
She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. October marks 30 years since Matilda was published! This brand new jacket comes with a never-before-seen illustration of Matilda as the Chief Executive of the British Library - one of the careers that Quentin Blake himself has imagined that Matilda might have at 30 years old.
Discover the other jackets in this special 30th anniversary collection: Matilda as a world traveller and Matilda as an astrophysicist Matilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's headmistress Miss Trunchbull? Well, she's the worst of all. She is a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded Chokey.
As for Matilda, she's an extraordinary little girl with a magical mind - and now she's had enough. So all these grown-ups had better watch out, because Matilda is going to teach them a lesson they'll never forget. Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. Do you like to spend time outdoors exploring? Or do you prefer to spend the day in the library? Discover which of Roald Dahl's iconic heroes you're most like with our quiz!
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B ut at Gibbers Creek, Jed Kelly sees ghosts, from the past and future, at the Drinkwater billabong where long ago the swaggie leaped to his defiant death. Time for old folk, time for young folk, time for a new, idealistic Labor government.
There have been fires before, but not like this. Under the burnt timber of the church, the police have found the body of Merv Ignatious, the man who so viciously attacked Jed Kelly when she was fifteen, and tried to kill her and her unborn child in last year's bushfire. And also in the church, lie skeletons from many years ago. The final book in the magnificent Matilda Saga, this is a book about the many kinds of love.
Clancy's love of the bush, immortalised in Paterson's poem. Nancy's deep understanding of her country, and her need to pass it on. But perhaps the most moving love story of all was the one that never happened, between Matilda O'Halloran and Clancy of the Overflow.
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