A Spot of Bother is an alternating-POV story about going quietly mad and loudly sane, and love under all our layers of repression and confusion: There’s newly-retired dad George, politely failing to bury his increasing obsessive thoughts of mortality under a zest for home renovations. Mom Jean, a...
A collection of poems written by Mark Haddon, the celebrated author of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME, ranging from short paragraphs to a multi-section story and covering a wide range of topics from books to the death of a loved one.Most noticeably Haddon uses a TON of language ...
Clunk! From a financial perspective, it makes perfect sense that this book, originally published in 1992 under the title Gridzbi Spudvetch! , is being given a second life nearly twenty years later. Its author, Mark Haddon, has since achieved literary renown as the author of 2003’s book club favo...
The clock strikes twelve, and on the dirt roadwhere the shanties thin to marsh grass and burnt cars,the music stops and tonight’s crocodileof lost children melt into the dark.They are ours now. You cannot touch them. They will see you in bad dreams.The smoke of October bonfires, a singlegunshot h...
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house. Its eyes were closed. 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. T...
Something first-date about it, that shiver, not knowing whom you’re inviting into your life.Dominic shits in the half-light, blinds down, opening the window afterward to clear the smell.Daisy almost wakes, senses something dangerous at the cave’s mouth and turns back to the furs and embers and sm...