Free B Fest

In celebration of Victoria Film Festival's Free B Fest - books, movies, and other treats to add to your experience in the park.


Updated August 8, 2025
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Collected stories
Dahl, Roald
Paper Book
Many of these stores are now so famous from film and television adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of Saki, and this volume does not disappoint. He began his literary career by writing about his...
Hail to the chin : further confessions of a B movie actor
Campbell, Bruce
Paper Book
Love from Boy : Roald Dahl's letters to his mother
Dahl, Roald
Paper Book
'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .' So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school headmaster....
Matilda
Dahl, Roald.
Paper Book
"A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero" - David Walliams "So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting...
Monster, she wrote : the women who pioneered horror & speculative fiction
Kröger, Lisa
Ebook
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn't exist...
Teller of the unexpected : the life of Roald Dahl : an unofficial biography
Dennison, Matthew
Paper Book
Book of the Week on Radio 4, and in the Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Week 'Riveting, and immaculately written' Sunday Telegraph 'A superb psychological study of a literary genius' Business Post ...

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