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  • Published: 1 July 2003
  • ISBN: 9781856867887
  • Imprint: Audiobooks
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 6 hr 1 min
  • Narrator: Ben Tibber
  • RRP: $48.99

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

The classic Sunday Times bestseller




A truly remarkable novel about an autistic boy.

'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. 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. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog.'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. 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.
Christopher is a brilliant creation, and Mark Haddon's depiction of his world is deeply moving, very funny and utterly convincing.
The novel is being published simultaneously for adults by Jonathan Cape and for children by David Fickling, publisher of Philip Pullman. We are convinced that both audiences will recognise it as one of those very rare books that change the way you see everything.

  • Published: 1 July 2003
  • ISBN: 9781856867887
  • Imprint: Audiobooks
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 6 hr 1 min
  • Narrator: Ben Tibber
  • RRP: $48.99

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).

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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

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

Exceptional by any standards. Both funny and deeply moving

Sunday Telegraph

A deservedly acclaimed read.

Time Out London

Wondrous...brilliantly inventive...dazzling. Not simply the most original novel I've read in years - it's also one of the best

The Times

a compelling adaptation

Daily Telegraph

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time is an extraordinary novel about a bot with asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism. Like Dustin Hoffman's in Rain Man, the narrator is a simpleton who actually has deeper insights than the rest of us. Beautifully read by a young actor called Ben Tibber in a precise but affecting voice, this is the oddest, most poignant audio book you'll find this year.

Georgia Metcalfe, The Daily Mail

Audiobook of the Year, Best Production and Best Children's 6 and Over

2003 Spoken Word Awards