Mark Haddon, author, illustrator and screenwriter, has written 18 books for children and won 2 BAFTAs. He is currently writing the TV adaptation of Fungus the Bogeyman for BBC and lives in Oxford with his wife and son.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (Jonathan Cape) A murder mystery novel like no other: The detective and narrator is Christopher Boone, a fifteen year old boy with Asperger’s, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. 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.
