The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Christopher John Francis Boone knows every country in the world and their capitals. He knows every prime number up to 7,057. He understands mathematics better than most adults. But he does not understand human faces, cannot bear to be touched, and has never been further from home alone than the end of his street. Then, one night in his neighbour’s garden, he finds Wellington the dog — murdered with a garden fork — and decides to solve the crime himself.

Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of those rare novels that is completely unlike anything you have read before. Christopher’s first-person narration — logical, precise, bracingly literal, and yet capable of sudden, unexpected poetry — is one of the great achievements in contemporary fiction. His detective story takes him to places far beyond the world he has carefully circumscribed, and what he discovers there is both more ordinary and more shattering than any mystery he imagined.

Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. One of the most loved and widely read novels of the twenty-first century — and still, fifteen years on, impossible to put down. Published by Vintage.