It was Dahl who invented gremlins ... given the unremittingly traumatic biographical background, Roald was drawn to a ‘belief in fantasy, grotesquerie, magic’. His books are ‘lyrical ...

Roald Dahl, who wrote books such as The BFG, Matilda, Charlie in The Chocolate Factory, and the Fantastic Mr Fox, was born in Landaff - a small town outside of Cardiff, Wales - to Norwegian parents.