A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She believes their life together is normal - but as time passes, she has a growing sense that something between them is very wrong. She cannot escape, so she seeks solace in her books....

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....

From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a novel about families and secrets Two families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border....

A seaside pier collapses. An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle....

Where do you go if you can\"t feel at home in your own family? When the people who made you can\"t fathom who you become? 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....

George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely. Some......

Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger\'s Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour\'s lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it....

A magical story from Mark Haddon, author of the phenomenally best-selling \\\"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time\\\" When the children wake up one morning the air is silent and the room is full of soft blue light. \\\"It\"s snowed!\\\" says Alice. \\\"It\"s like the North Pole!...

Fifteen-year-old Christopher has a photographic memory. He understands maths. He understands science. 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....

George Hall doesn’t understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. ‘The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely’. Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven, George is settling......

\"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....

In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, sport, responsibilities, passions, desires, dreams--why should anyone stop what they\'re doing and read a book?...

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother\"s death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela......

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 Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth....

\\\"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......