Going Solo

*Going Solo*
First edition
Author	Roald Dahl
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Autobiography
Publisher	Jonathan Cape (UK)
Publication date	1986
Pages	208
ISBN	9780224024075
Followed by	Matilda (1988)

Going Solo is a memoir by Roald Dahl, first published by Jonathan Cape in London in 1986. It is a continuation of his autobiography describing his childhood, Boy. It tells about his voyage to Africa, describing the various strange people he meets.^[1] He was on a boat heading towards Dar es Salaam for his new job working for Shell Oil. He eventually joined the war as a squadron pilot in the Royal Air Force, flying the Tiger Moth, Gloster Gladiator, and Hawker Hurricane. He was one of the last Allied pilots to withdraw from Greece during the German invasion, taking part in the air Battle of Athens on 20 April 1941. After Greece fell to the Nazis, he went to the Middle East to fight Vichy French pilots after staying for a brief time in Alexandria, Egypt.

Roald Dahl

Children's fiction	The Gremlins (1943) James and the Giant Peach (1961) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) The Magic Finger (1966) Fantastic Mr Fox (1970) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972) Danny, the Champion of the World (1975) The Enormous Crocodile (1978) The Twits (1980) George's Marvellous Medicine (1981) The BFG (1982) The Witches (1983) The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985) Matilda (1988) Esio Trot (1990) The Minpins (1991) The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991)

Children's poetry	Revolting Rhymes (1982) Dirty Beasts (1983) Rhyme Stew (1989)

Adult novels	Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948) My Uncle Oswald (1979)

Adult short story collections	Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946) Someone Like You (1953) Kiss Kiss (1960) Switch Bitch (1974) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977) The Best of Roald Dahl (1978) Tales of the Unexpected (1979) More Tales of the Unexpected (1980) The Roald Dahl Omnibus (1986) Two Fables (1986) Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989) The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (1991) The Roald Dahl Treasury (1997) The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1998) Skin and Other Stories (2000) Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (2006)

Non-fiction	The Mildenhall Treasure (1946) Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) Going Solo (1986) Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991) Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991) My Year (1993)

Film adaptations	36 Hours (1965) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Danny, the Champion of the World (1989) The BFG (1989) The Witches (1990) James and the Giant Peach (1996) Matilda (1996) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2015) The BFG (2016)

Film scripts	The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling (1966, unfinished) You Only Live Twice (1967) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) The Night Digger (1971) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Television series	Way Out (1961) Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)

Musicals and plays	The Honeys (1955) Matilda (2010) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013)

See also	Quentin Blake Roald Dahl short stories bibliography Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983) List of Tales of the Unexpected episodes

Related	Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre Roald Dahl Children's Gallery Patricia Neal (wife) Tessa Dahl (daughter) Ophelia Dahl (daughter) Lucy Dahl (daughter)

References

↑ http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2011/dec/01/going-solo-roald-dahl-review

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