Roald Dahl lands first ever UK No 1 with World Book Day release

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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/16/roald-dahl-world-book-day-great-mouse-plot

"Roald Dahl, the author of some of the best-loved children’s books from Matilda to The BFG, has reached No 1 in the UK book charts for the first time.

The Great Mouse Plot, in which a young Dahl and his friends play a trick on the “loathsome” Mrs Pratchett, a “small, skinny old hag” who runs the sweet shop in his hometown of Llandaff, Cardiff, sold 32,096 copies this week, according to the official book sales monitor, Nielsen BookScan.

Published for World Book Day, the story – itself an extract from Dahl’s childhood memoir, Boy – tells of the author and his friends deciding to teach Mrs Pratchett a lesson when they find a dead mouse under a floorboard at school. “It was I and I alone who had the idea for the great and daring Mouse Plot,” recounts Dahl. “We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine”.

The Great Mouse Plot beat another World Book Day title, Star Wars story The Escape, to the top spot, also coming in ahead of bestselling titles by Mary Berry, Jeffrey Archer and Philippa Gregory.

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Seems strange, but I guess nothing is all that strange in Dahl's world.