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The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. 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 unim ...Show more
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
A fantastical new novel--a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's Pericles--from the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time When his pregnant wife is killed in a plane crash, the unimaginably wealthy Philippe becomes obsessed with the safety of his surviving da ...Show more
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
'I really am so very, very sorry about this,' he says, in an oddly formal voice... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She kno ...Show more
The Porpoise - A Novel by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
'Just downright brilliant... a transcendant, transporting experience' Observer 'A full-throttle blast of storytelling mastery' Max Porter A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours ab ...Show more
The Porpoise - A Novel by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
'I really am so very, very sorry about this,' he says, in an oddly formal voice. They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour.A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows n ...Show more
The Red House by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
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 and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh b ...Show more
The Red House by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and A Spot of Bother comes a superb book about family 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 b ...Show more
The Sea Of Tranquility (Book & audio-CD) by Mark Haddon (read by Anthony Head)
Category: Graphic Novels
Leading up to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, the excitement of this momentous event is captured through the eyes of a child in this glorious picture book, reformatted with a new cover design. Mark Haddon is the prize-winning, highly-acclaimed author of the best-selling novel The Curio ...Show more
The Sea of Tranquility by Mark Haddon & Christian Birmingham (illus.)
Category: Children's
Leading up to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, the excitement of this momentous event is captured through the eyes of a child in this glorious picture book, reformatted with a new cover design. Mark Haddon is the prize-winning, highly-acclaimed author of the best-selling novel 'The Curiou ...Show more
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea by Mark Haddon
Category: Poetry
Here are bittersweet love-songs, comic set-pieces, lullabies, lucid and bold new versions of Horace, wry postmodern shenanigans, and an entire John Buchan novel condensed to five pages. In his first book of poetry Mark Haddon brings the humanity of his voices, his dark humour and uncanny ventriloquism ...Show more
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
That Mark Haddon's first book after "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" was a poetry collection perhaps came as a surprise to his legions of fans; that it is a collection of such virtuosity and range did not. The gifts so admired in Haddon's prose are in strong evidence here too - the hu ...Show more
Top Notes HSC: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Standard by HADDON, MARK
Category: Education | Series: Top Notes