Books by Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

Den mystiske sag om hunden i natten er en usædvanlig mordgåde. Detektiv og fortæller er den 15-årige Christopher Boone, der bor alene med sin far og lider af Aspergers syndrom, en form for autisme. Han forstår ikke metaforer, ironi og ansigtsudtryk og hader berøringer og farverne brun og gul. Men han elsker matematik, logik, lister og sandheden. En dag finder han genboens hund myrdet og sætter sig for at finde gerningsmanden. Efterforskningen af mysteriet om den myrdede hund sender ham hovedkulds ud på en rejse gennem en verden, han ikke forstår. Og den fører til opklaringen af en hemmelighed, som vender op og ned på hans liv. En gribende og indfølt fortælling af en autistisk dreng og en medrivende kriminalroman, der gør det samme for naturvidenskaben som Sofies verden for filosofien. Pressen skriver: »Jeg er mildt sagt ret begejstret for bogen. Hele historien er en jeg-fortælling, og det lykkes forfatteren fænomenalt at beskrive Aspergers Syndrom set indefra. Det er pakket flot ind i Christophers jagt på at løse mysteriet om hunden, samt det drama Christopher selv bliver kastet ud i som konsekvens af mysteriet.« - bogboblen, Instagram »Den mystiske sag om hunden i natten, er også én af de bedste bøger jeg har læst i 2019, og helt klart noget, som jeg ville anbefale. Den handler ikke blot om autisme, men om det at være anderledes, alene og at vokse op i en verden, hvor man ikke er som alle andre, men alligevel at lykkes med at finde sin plads alligevel.« ???????- Petro, Boggnasker

Pools winner and total wazzock, Dennis Sidebottom has moved next door to Ben - bringing his squeaky-clean kids with him. Accused of being troublemakers and a bad influence, they decide to shake up the Sidebottom universe with the help of Agent Z, a meteorite and a stolen penguin.

At 57, George Hall is settling down to a retirement. Then Katie, his daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her brother Jamie observes that Ray has 'strangler's hands'. This book features a portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. It also talks about the people who fall apart and come together as a family.

In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet frequently absurd light, and, in doing so charts a stormy course into the crucible of the self. Selected from The Pier Falls, The Red House and A Spot of Bother. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.

In Polar Bears, award-winning writer Mark Haddon balances humour and pathos to tell of one man's struggle to love, support and live with someone suffering from a psychological condition.

'He writes with the craft of Julian Barnes or, even, Truman Capote.' The TimesA Spectator Book of the YearAn expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong.

He's planning to recover the buried loot any night now and Agent Z and the crew intend to be there when he does. Mark Haddon has a sharp understanding of what makes children tick, and they will delight in the ever more daring, ever more hilarious missions of Agent Z and his three creators.

Boom! Is a roller-coaster read with spaceships, spies and mortal danger!Jim and his best friend Charlie weren't looking for adventure, when they decided to bug the staffroom . . . But then they overhear their teachers speaking in a secret language and it's too late to turn back. And now they have to explain to the police, the headmistress and their parents where they've been for a whole week - without mentioning the aliens.

A poetry collection of great versatility and talent from a bestselling author

The Red House is about the extraordinariness of the ordinary, weaving the words and thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter, stranger voices - of books and letters and music, of the dead who once inhabited these rooms, of the ageing house itself and the landscape in which it sits.

Christopher, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington.

He understands maths. What he can't understand are other human beings.When he finds his neighbour's dog, Wellington, lying dead on the lawn, he decides to track down the killer and write a murder mystery about it. But in doing so, he uncovers other mysteries that threaten to bring his whole world crashing down around him.

Ben's a born daydreamer. He's much rather be in the Sahara, or on a Viking ship than sitting in a boring maths lesson. Then Agent Z appears on the scene - and THAT means secret missions, cunning plans and careful strategies. And soon Ben and his friends, Barney and Jenks, realize that life on planet earth is RATHER exciting after all!

He discovers an incriminating videotape of Agent Z activities and blackmails Ben into becoming his slave.Meanwhile, Ben, Jenks and Barney embark on their first film, entitled Invasion of the Killer Bananas, in which T.J.