Over to You brings together 10 of Roald Dahl's earliest stories, many of them set during the Second World War and drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot. It includes his first paid piece of writing, the short story A Piece of Cake, which was originally published in 1942 in American magazine The Saturday Evening Post under the title Shot Down Over Libya.

The 10 stories featured are:

• Death of an Old, Old Man
  
• An African Story
  
• A Piece of Cake
  
• Madame Rosette
  
• Katina
  
• Yesterday Was Beautiful
  
• They Shall Not Grow Old
  
• Beware of the Dog
  
• Only This
  
• Someone Like You