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A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
The most keenly awaited book of the year - the brilliant new novel by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was the best loved and one of the bestselling novels of recent years. Winner of no fewer than seventeen l ...Show more
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in hi ...Show more
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the arguing the wedding has occasioned, which gets in the way of her late-life affair with one of her husban ...Show more
Agent Z Goes Wild by Mark Haddon
Category: Children's | Series: Red Fox Fantastic Stories
Ben's in danger of spending his holidays cooped up in a caravan with his Mad Aunt Gwen. But by luck (and bribery), he gets a place on the school trip to an outward-bound centre in Wales, along with Barney, Jenks and, of course, Agent Z. Abseiling, orienteering, sinking enemy canoes and sabotaging toothp ...Show more
Agent Z Meets the Masked Crusader by Mark Haddon
Category: Children's
The summer term is dragging on, and Ben's life is lacking excitement - until, that is, the evening he finds worms in his bed and a note telling him that this is the work of Agent Z! But who is Agent Z? After some detective work Ben discovers that his mates, Barney and Jenks are responsible and together ...Show more
Agent Z and the Killer Bananas by Mark Haddon
Category: Children's
More barking-mad mischief from practical jokers, the Crane Grove Crew.
Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars by Mark Haddon
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Red Fox fantastic stories
Pools winner and total wazzock, Dennis Sidebottom has moved next door to Ben - bringing his squeaky-clean kids with him. The Crane Grove Crew - Ben, Barney and Jenks - soon find themselves on the Sidebottom blacklist. Accused of being troublemakers and a bad influence, they decide to shake up the Sidebo ...Show more
Boom! by Mark Haddon
Category: Fiction
An explosive, highly-charged and hilarious adventure from Mark Haddon, acclaimed author of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME. From the moment that Jim and his best friend Charlie bug the staffroom and overhear two of their teachers speaking to each other in a secret language, they know t ...Show more
Boom! by Mark Haddon
Category: Junior Fiction
"Boom!" is a roller-coaster read with spaceships, spies and mortal danger! Jim and his best friend Charlie weren't looking for adventure, when they decided to bug the staffroom ...But then they overhear their teachers speaking in a secret language and it's too late to turn back. And now they have to exp ...Show more
Boom! by Mark Haddon
Category: Junior Fiction
Boom! Is a roller-coaster read with spaceships, spies and mortal danger! Jim and his best friend Charlie weren't looking for adventure, when they decided to bug the staffroom...But then they overhear their teachers speaking in a secret language and it's too late to turn back. And now they have to explai ...Show more
Boom!: Or 70,000 Light Years by Mark Haddon
Category: Children's
An explosive, highly charged, and hilarious middle-grade adventure from Mark Haddon, acclaimed author of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time." From the moment that Jim and his best friend, Charlie, bug the staff room and overhear two of their teachers speaking to each other in a secret la ...Show more