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Mark Haddon
MARK HADDON is the author of the international bestseller, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Whitbread Book of the Year award. In addition to the recently published The Talking Horse, the Sad Girl, and the Village Under the Sea, a collection of poetry, Haddon has also written and illustrated numerous awardwinning children's books and television screenplays. He teaches writing for the Arvon foundation and at Oxford University. He lives in Oxford with his wife and son.
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A Spot of Bother
Written by Mark Haddon
Vintage | eBook |
$13.95/(Canada) | 978-0-307-38769-1 (0-307-38769-0)
George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. “The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.” Some... Read more
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Boom!
Written by Mark Haddon
David Fickling Books | Hardcover | May 11, 2010
$15.99/(Canada) | 978-0-385-75187-2 (0-385-75187-7)
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Boom!
Written by Mark Haddon
David Fickling Books | eBook |
$15.99/(Canada) | 978-0-375-89364-3 (0-375-89364-4)
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Boom!
Written by Mark Haddon
David Fickling Books | Hardcover Library Binding | May 11, 2010
$18.99/(Canada) | 978-0-385-75188-9 (0-385-75188-5)
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Boom!
Written by Mark Haddon
Listening Library (Audio) | Unabridged Compact Disc | May 11, 2010
$28.00/33.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-8137-3 (0-7393-8137-7)
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Boom!
Written by Mark Haddon
Listening Library (Audio) | Unabridged Audiobook Download |
$14.00/17.99(Canada) | 978-0-7393-8138-0 (0-7393-8138-5)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Written by Mark Haddon
Doubleday | Hardcover | July 2003
$26.00/(Canada) | 978-0-385-51210-7 (0-385-51210-4)
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions... Read more
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Written by Mark Haddon
Vintage | eBook |
$14.00/(Canada) | 978-1-4000-7907-0 (1-4000-7907-1)
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions... Read more
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Written by Mark Haddon
Vintage | Trade Paperback | May 2004
$14.00/(Canada) | 978-1-4000-3271-6 (1-4000-3271-7)
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.
This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to... Read more
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A Spot of Bother
Written by Mark Haddon
Vintage | Trade Paperback | August 2007
$15.00/(Canada) | 978-0-307-27886-9 (0-307-27886-7)
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon’s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting... Read more
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A Spot of Bother
Written by Mark Haddon, Read by Charles Keating
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$15.00/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-4151-3 (0-7393-4151-0)
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 things in life can’t be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katie’s... Read more
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A Spot of Bother
Written by Mark Haddon
Random House Audio | Unabridged Compact Disc | September 2006
$39.95/52.95(Canada) | 978-0-7393-4264-0 (0-7393-4264-9)
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 things in life can’t be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katie’s... Read more
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A Spot of Bother
Written by Mark Haddon, Read by Simon Vance
Random House Audio | Unabridged Audiobook Download |
$20.00/25.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-4265-7 (0-7393-4265-7)
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 things in life can’t be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katie’s... Read more
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The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea
Written by Mark Haddon
Vintage | Trade Paperback | April 2006
$13.95/(Canada) | 978-0-307-27569-1 (0-307-27569-8)
From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems.
That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also... Read more
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