The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409086048
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

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22 Jan 2019
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3 Mar 2014
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15 Aug 2012
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15 Apr 2004
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1 May 2010
Audio CD
1 Jul 2003
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27 Nov 2017
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The multiple award-winning phenomenal bestseller from Mark Haddon - the story of Christopher, the boy whose mission to solve a dog-murder mystery leads him to uncover some shocking hidden truths

Discover this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel that has sold over 10 million copies worldwide

'A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Atonement

It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead.
This is Christopher's story. There are also no lies in this story because Christopher can't tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yellow or brown or being touched. On the other hand, he knows all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7507. When Christopher decides to find out who killed the neighbour's dog, his mystery story becomes more complicated than he could have ever predicted.

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409086048
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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About the author

Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon is a writer and artist. 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. In 2012, a stage adaptation by Simon Stephens was produced by the National Theatre and went on to win 7 Olivier Awards in 2013 and the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play. In 2005 his poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador, and his play, Polar Bears, was produced by the Donmar Warehouse in 2010. His most recent novel, The Red House, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. The Pier Falls, a collection of short stories, was also published by Cape in 2016. To commemorate the centenary of the Hogarth Press he wrote and illustrated a short story that appeared alongside Virginia Woolf's first story for the press in Two Stories (Hogarth, 2017).

portrait photo of Mark Haddon

Also by Mark Haddon

The Pier Falls
Boom!
The Porpoise
Dogs and Monsters
A Spot of Bother
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Praise for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

In telling a painful story in the voice of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's, Haddon broadens ordinary minds and helps to understand how they work, too.

Daily Telegraph

A magical book. It's one of those books that makes you feel as though you have been on an emotional rollercoaster.

Carrie Grant, Sunday Express

Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy

Ian McEwan

I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out

Arthur Golden, author of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

Original, moving and entertaining for adults as well as for older children

Julia Donaldson, Daily Express

A delightful and brilliant book. Very moving, very plausible and very funny

Oliver Sacks

Brilliantly empathetic. Believe the hype: a brilliant, heart-warming book

Scotsman

A remarkable book. An impressive achievement and a rewarding read

Time Out

Outstanding. Heartening as well as richly entertaining. A stunningly good read

Independent

Superbly realised. A funny as well as a sad book. Brilliant

Guardian

A beautifully written book. Haddon is to be congratulated for imagining a new kind of hero, for the humbling instruction this warm and often funny novel offers and for showing that the best lives are lived where difference is cherished

Daily Telegraph

To get an idea of what The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is like, think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sacks's real-life stories

New York Times

Exceptional by any standards. Both funny and deeply moving

Sunday Telegraph