My Uncle Oswald

A beautiful new jacket treatment, part of Penguin’s reissue programme of Dahl’s adult titles

Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl’s most extraordinary adult creation …

Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts …