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Mark Haddon

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Mark Haddon was born in Northampton on 26th September 1962. He is a British illustrator, poet and author.

He went to Uppingham School and studied English at Merton College, Oxford. As a young man, he worked with autistic people, where he learnt about Asperger’s syndrome and from his experiences he created Christopher Boone, the hero of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is probably Haddon’s most famous book. It won the Whitbread award, The Guardian’s Children Fiction Prize and the South Bank Show award, and was also longlisted for the Man Booker prize. It was primarily aimed at an adult audience but his publisher suggested that he should market the novel for children too.

He is also well known for A Spot of Bother and his series of Agent Z books, which was turned into a BBC sitcom in 1996. In addition, he wrote the BBC television programme, Coming Down the Mountain in 2007.

Haddon currently lives in Oxford with his wife, Sos Eltis and their two sons.

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Bibliography

Series

Agent Z


A Children & Middle Grade series (1993 - 2001)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Escalating pranks with a gloriously gross streak
  • Secret kid missions and goofy amateur surveillance
  • Wild schemes that humiliate bullies and nosy adults

Standalone Fiction

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

A Spot of Bother

Polar Bears

Polar Bears

Script

The Red House

The Pier Falls

The Pier Falls

Short story collection

Family

Family

Short story collection

The Porpoise

Dogs and Monsters

Dogs and Monsters

Short story collection

Standalone Non-fiction

Stop What You're Doing And Read This!

Leaving Home

Works of Poetry

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

Children & Middle Grade Books

Gilbert's Gobstopper

Titch Johnson

Real Porky Philips

Footprints on the Moon

Boom!

Boom!


The Ice Bear’s Cave

The Sea of Tranquility

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