Revolting Rhymes is a collection of which British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot, poems published in 1982?
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Revolting Rhymes Revolting Rhymes is a collection of Roald Dahl poems published in 1982. A parody of traditional folk tales in verse, Dahl gives a re-interpretation of six well-known fairy tales, featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after finishes. The poems are illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is the shortest children's book he has written.
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Roald Dahl Roald Dahl ( , ] ; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.
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James Fry James Fry (born 1982) is an Australian writer.
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The Night of Morningstar The Night of Morningstar is the title of the eleventh book chronicling the adventures of crime lord-turned-secret agent Modesty Blaise. The novel was first published in 1982 and was written by Peter O'Donnell, who had created the character for a comic strip in the early 1960s. The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Souvenir Press.
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Marilyn Duckworth Marilyn Duckworth OBE (born 10 November 1935 in New Zealand) is a novelist, poet and short story writer. She has published 16 novels, one novella, a collection of short stories and a collection of poetry. She has also written for television and radio.
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Frank Arthur Swinnerton Frank Arthur Swinnerton (12 August 1884 – 6 November 1982) was an English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist.
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Revolting Rhymes (film) Revolting Rhymes is a 2016 British-German computer animated TV film based on the book of the same name written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
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Goals in the Air Goals in the Air is a 1972 children's novel by prolific British author Michael Hardcastle.
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Philip Toynbee Theodore Philip Toynbee (25 June 1916 – 15 June 1981) was a British writer and communist. He wrote experimental novels, and distinctive verse novels, one of which was an epic called "Pantaloon", a work in several volumes, only some of which are published. He also wrote memoirs of the 1930s, and reviews and literary criticism, the latter mainly via his employment with "The Observer" newspaper.
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Terry Deary William Terence "Terry" Deary (born 3 January 1946) is a British children's author of over 200 books, selling over 25 million copies in over 40 languages, best known as the writer of the "Horrible Histories" series. Since 1994 he has been one of Britain's best-selling authors. In 2012 he was the tenth most-borrowed author in British libraries, and was voted Outstanding Children's Non-Fiction Author Of The 20th Century by "Books for Keeps" magazine.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a collection of short prose stories written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published by Dent on 4 April 1940. The first paperback copy appeared in 1948, published by the British Publishers Guild.
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Avril Joy Avril M. Joy is a British author whose short story "Millie and Bird" won the Costa Short Story Award in the 2012 Costa Book Awards.
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Going Home (Peyton novel) Going Home is a children's novel by K. M. Peyton. It was first published in 1982.
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The Runestaff The Runestaff is a novel by British author Michael Moorcock, and was first published in 1969 under the title "The Secret of the Runestaff".
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Rowland Molony Rowland Molony (born 1946) is a British poet and novelist.
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Jason Charles Jason Charles is a London-based playwright, novelist, short-story writer, lyricist, poet, actor and performance poet.
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Patrick Gale Patrick Evelyn Hugh Sadler Gale (born 31 January 1962) is a British novelist.
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Thomas Hinde (novelist) Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet (2 March 1926 – 7 March 2014), better known by his pen name Thomas Hinde, was a British novelist.
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Killing Children "Killing Children" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collections "Capitol" and "The Worthing Saga". Card first published it in the November 1978 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact".
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Parade's End Parade's End (1924-1928) is a tetralogy of novels by the British novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939). The setting is mainly England and the Western Front of the First World War, in which Ford had served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life he vividly depicts. The individual novels are:
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Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes is a collection of nursery rhymes written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1917. Potter had a lifelong fascination with rhymes, and proposed a book of short verses called "Appley Dapply" to Warne following the release of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" in 1902. Warne preferred Potter's original fantasies to her derivative work, and gave "Appley Dapply" little encouragement. The book was set aside in favour of other projects.
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Few Eggs and No Oranges Few Eggs and No Oranges, the diary of Vere Hodgson, recounts life on the home front during the Second World War. It was first published in 1976 by Dennis Dobson and again in 1999 by Persephone Books. Described by the author as "a diary showing how unimportant people in London and Birmingham lived through the war years", the published diaries begin on 25 June 1940, the morning after the first air raid on London.