Going SoloIf you want to discover how a snake man avoids a poisonous bite, what to do if you find yourself in the mouth of a lion and where Rudolph Valentino comes into it all, just plunge into the adventurous pages of Going Solo. As Hazel Rochman in the New York Times Book Review declared of Roald Dahl's Boy: 'the autobiographical stories are as frightening and funny as his fiction'. What could be higher praise than that?

This follows on from the Sword in the Stone

Seconds later a gun goes off

Half of the inhabitants of Great Britain have been sold a patent medicine of peculiar austerity

though rarely sentimental

Bertie can never resist demonstrating his sleuthing skills and he rashly co-opts Bernhardt as his assistant

when her grandson Prince Eddy

Edward Fosca is a murderer

Sentenced to life imprisonment

Dave knows his motives are fuelled by guilt

obsessed with keeping her family safe

the entire country begins to question: who are they

his friend and restaurant manager