' 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, & narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen & has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths & very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns & the truth. He hates the colours yellow & brown & 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, & Mark Haddon's depiction of his world is deeply moving, very funny & utterly convincing. The novel is being published simultaneously for adults by Jonathan Cape & 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. ...

' 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, & narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen & has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths & very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns & the truth. He hates the colours yellow & brown & 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 15 & lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science & 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 & write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets
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Drawing on over 2, 000 years of writing & experiences from all over the world, The Curious World of Christmas covers every ...

Drawing on over 2, 000 years of writing & experiences from all over the world, The Curious World of Christmas covers every ...

In the floating city of Sanctaphrax, fusty old professors scheme & bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail
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In the floating city of Sanctaphrax, fusty old professors scheme & bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail
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In the floating city of Sanctaphrax, fusty old professors scheme & bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail
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THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is probably Edith Wharton's most savage satire on the manners of late nineteenth-century America. It is the story of the exquisitely beautiful but brutally ambitious Undine Spragg who marries her way into the high aristocracy of Europe, abandoning several husbands along the way. This novel, which has scences of comedy & even farce, is a commentary on both certain aspects of feminisim & certain aspects of capitalism in Edith Wharton's time. The novel makes a fitting companion to THE AGE OF INNOCENCE & THE HOUSE OF MIRTH & shows Wharton to be one of the greatest American novelists. ...