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Rummins

by Roald Dahl

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Listen to the Book: Rummins

This week in the Tales from the Library Book Club we will be reading the shirt story 'Rummins' by Roald Dahl. Rummins is a short, sharp, chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. A recurring character in his book 'Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life' Rummins is discribed as an unpleasant nasty man; 'this man with the wide frog mouth, the broken teath, the shifty eyes'. 

In 'Rummins', Roald Dahl, tells a macabre and a rather gruesome story about the darker side of human nature. Set in the quiet solitude of the english countryside. Here, the men building a hay rick one summer find that the heat and rats are the least of their worries...

Every Thursday at 3PM we will explore a new book and tale from various different writers. Read the book in advance or listen to our available audio recordings of the stories and then join us for a chat about the story and its deeper themes and meanings.

About the Author

Roald Dahl is the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and a treasury of original, evergreen, and beloved children’s books. He remains for many the world’s No. 1 storyteller.

Born in Llandaff, Wales, on 13th September 1916 to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg, Dahl was named after Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian who had been the first man to reach the South Pole just four years earlier. A heroic start in life. But his early years were blighted by the tragic deaths of his older sister, Astri, and his father.

Wanting the best for her only son, his mother sent him to boarding school - first to St Peter's, Weston-super-Mare; then, in 1929, to Repton - where many bizarre and memorable events would later be recounted in Boy. Pupils at Repton were invited to trial chocolate bars, a memory that stayed with Dahl throughout his life, inspiring Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Despite his death in 1990 Dahl’s own life story continues to play out through his fiction. In many of his stories the reader experiences Dahl’s metamorphosis into his own characters – with similarities seen between Dahl and several of his heroic creations in his children’s books.

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