THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

by MARK HADDON

Winner of seventeen literary prizes

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New softcover book, 272 pages.

A fantastically unusual detective story written from the perspective of an autistic boy.

Fifteen-year-old Christopher has a photographic memory. He lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He loves Sherlock Holmes. He understands maths. He understands science. What he can't understand are other human beings. When he finds his neighbour's dog lying dead on the lawn, he decides to track down the killer and write a murder mystery about it. But what other mysteries will he end up uncovering? As in all good detective stories, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets - for both Christopher and the rest of his family.

About the author:
Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written 15 books for children and won two BAFTAs. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award. He is the author of 19 children's books, another adult fiction book, A Spot of Bother and a poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, which was published in 2005. Mark Haddon lives in Oxford with his wife and their 2 sons.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon