It’s official. A Big Friendly Giant is coming to a cinema near you. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is set to adapt Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book The BFG for the big screen. The house was absolutely silent. No voices came up from downstairs. There were no footsteps on the floor above either. The window behind the curtain was wide open, but nobody was walking on the pavement ... Read more

I would have to say that Roald Dahl had the greatest influence over my imagination as a kid. I don’t know whether I was already kinda screwy before I read Dahl but I certainly was after. Dahl’s unique (odd) view of the world had a great impact on me, as it has had on millions of other kids. The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Matilda were a shock to my conservative little soul ... Read more