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Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own...

Most grandmas are kind and helpful ladies. Not George's grandma. She's a grumpy and grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson. So when it's time for her medicine, George concocts a bubbling, frothing, marvelous mixture, which is guaranteed to send her through the roof...

An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James's parents. And it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his two really horrible aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Poor James is miserable, until something peculiar happens and James finds himself on the most wonderful and extraordinary journey he could ever imagine...

Matilda Wormwood's father is a mean crooked crook. And her mother's just plain stupid. They think Matilda is a nuisance who should watch more TV and read fewer books! But her lovely teacher Miss Honey thinks Matilda is a genius. Matilda has a few extraordinary tricks up her sleeve, so her horrible parents and even more horrible headmistress had better watch out.

In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.

Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. In the middle, meanwhile, are The Great Switcheroo and The Last Act, two stories exploring a darker side of desire and pleasure.

In the black comedies of Switch Bitch Roald Dahl brilliantly captures the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex.

Table of Contents:

• The Visitor - (1965)
• The Great Switcheroo - (1974)
• The Last Act - (1966)
• Bitch - (1974)

Every night, when the world is sleeping, big gruesome giants guzzle up whoppsy-whiffling human beans. And there's only one giant who can stop them - the BFG. He's the kindest giant there is and, with his friend Sophie in his top pocket, he sets out to rid the world of the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and all their rotsome friends forever...

Contains the contents of four previously published collections: Kiss, Kiss (1960), Over to You (1946), Switch Bitch (1974), and Someone Like You (1953), plus new matterial.

Contents:

• i - Introduction (The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl) - essay by uncredited
• 1 - Kiss Kiss - (1960) - collection
• 3 - The Landlady - (1959) - short story
• 12 - William and Mary - (1960) - novelette
• 37 - The Way Up to Heaven - non-genre - (1954) - short story
• 49 - Parson's Pleasure - non-genre - (1958) - novelette
• 70 - Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat - non-genre - (1959) - short story
• 85 - Royal Jelly - (1959) - novelette
• 109 - Georgy Porgy - (1959) - novelette
• 130 - Genesis and Catastrophe - non-genre - (1959) - short story (variant of A Fine Son)
• 137 - Edward the Conqueror - (1953) - short story
• 154 - Pig - (1959) - short story
• 172 - The Champion of the World - non-genre - (1959) - novelette
• 197 - Over to You - (1946) - collection
• 199 - Death of an Old Old Man - non-genre - (1945) - short story
• 210 - An African Story - (1946) - short story
• 222 - A Piece of Cake - non-genre - (1942) - short story
• 233 - Madame Rosette - non-genre - (1945) - novelette
• 259 - Katina - non-genre - (1944) - novelette
• 280 - Yesterday Was Beautiful - non-genre - (1946) - short story
• 285 - They Shall Not Grow Old - (1944) - short story
• 300 - Beware of the Dog - non-genre - (1944) - short story
• 311 - Only This - (1944) - short story
• 317 - Someone Like You - non-genre - (1945) - short story
• 325 - Switch Bitch - (1974) - collection
• 327 - The Visitor - non-genre - [Uncle Oswald - 1] - (1965) - novella
• 367 - The Great Switcheroo - non-genre - (1974) - novelette
• 388 - The Last Act - non-genre - (1966) - novelette
• 414 - Bitch - [Uncle Oswald - 2] - (1974) - novelette
• 439 - Someone Like You - (1953) - collection
• 441 - Taste - non-genre - (1951) - short story
• 454 - Lamb to the Slaughter - non-genre - (1953) - short story
• 463 - Man from the South - (1948) - short story
• 473 - The Soldier - non-genre - (1953) - short story by Roal

Mr and Mrs Twit are really disgusting. They smell because they never wash, they fight because they play tricks on each other, AND they hate children. But worst of all, they keep monkeys in their back garden. In cages. It's time for the monkeys to get their revenge on these two most revolting creatures...

This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches.

Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens closely to Grandmamma's stories - but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself!

Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. It's the prize of a lifetime! Gobstoppers, wriggle sweets and a river of melted chocolate delight await - Charlie needs just one Golden Ticket and these delicious treats could all be his.

Charlie Bucket has WON Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it. In a great glass elevator! But when the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise, Charlie and his family find themselves in splendid orbit around the Earth. A daring adventure has begun, with the one and only Mr Willy Wonka leading the way.