Roald Dahl's Missing Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Chapter Is Mind-Blowing

has been published for the first time.

The lost fifth chapter, which describes an extra room in the factory called the Vanilla Fudge Room, has been published in the Guardian's Review supplement.

It comes ahead of the release next week of a new book on the story behind the much-loved children's novel by writer Lucy Mangan, Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first edition.

Roald Dahl's book, released in the US in 1964 and UK in 1967, has sold an estimated 50 million copies in the UK and is currently available in 59 languages.

Dahl's book, which has inspired several film versions and a hit stage musical, follows the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory owned by the eccentric Willy Wonka.

But in the Welsh-born author's early draft, which is undated, instead of five Golden Ticket winners there were 10, with familiar characters such as Augustus Gloop given different monikers, such as Augustus Pottle.

And the chapter, which appears to begin after Gloop's mishap in the chocolate river, reveals Charlie originally went into the factory with his mother rather than his grandfather.

In it, previously unknown characters named Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice meet a sticky end when they ignore Wonka's warnings and ride railway waggons carrying fudge to The Pounding and Cutting Room.

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