Penguin presents the audiobook model of Cruelty by Roald Dahl, read by Will Self, Adrian Scarborough, Stephanie Beacham, Andrew Scott, Richard E Grant, Tamsin Greig, Mark Heap, Juliet Stevenson and Jessica Hynes.

‘Cruelty includes a human center .’

Even though we mean to be kind we can sometimes be cruel. We each have a streak of nastiness inside us. In these ten tales of cruelty grasp storyteller Roald Dahl explores how and why it really is we make others suffer.

Collected together for the very first time, stories are the Great Automatic Grammatizator, Royal jelly, Mrs Bixby as well as the Colonel’s Jacket,The Swan, Poison, Pores and skin, The Princess and the Poacher, Genesis and Catastrophe and Mr Feasey.