{"title":"Mark Haddon","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"dogs-and-monsters-stories-mark-haddon-paperback","title":"Dogs and Monsters: Stories -- Mark Haddon, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \"terrifyingly talented\" (London Times) author of \u003ci\u003eTHE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG-IN THE NIGHT-TIME \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e THE PORPOISE, \u003c\/i\u003eeight mesmerizingly imaginative, deeply-humane stories that use Greek myths and contemporary dystopian narratives to examine mortality, moral choices and the many variants of love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGreek myths have fascinated people for millenia, seeing in them lessons about fate and hubris and the contingency of existence. Mark Haddon digs into the heart of these ancient fables and sees them anew. The dawn goddess Eos asked asks Zeus to give her lover Tithonus eternal life, but forgets to ask for eternal youth. In \"The Quiet Limit of the World\" Haddon imagines Tithonus' life as he slowly ages over thousands of years, turning the cautionary tale of tempting the gods into a spellbinding meditation on witnessing death from the outside, and ultimately, how carnal love evolves into something richer and more poignant with time. In \"The Mother's Story,\" Haddon takes the myth of the minotaur in his labyrinth, in which the beast is the spawn of the monstrous lust of the king's wife Pasiphae, and turns it into a wrenching parable of maternal love for a damaged child, and the more real monstrosities of patriarchy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOther stories play with contemporary mythic tropes - genetic engineering, trying to escape the future, the viciousness of adolescent ostracism - to showcase how modern humans are subject to the same capriciousness that obsessed the Greeks. Throughout Haddon's supple prose showcases his astonishing powers of observation, of both the physical world and the workings of the psyche. His vision is clear-eyed, but always resolutely empathetic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Haddon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593688236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARK HADDON is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Porpoise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Red House\u003c\/i\u003e and A Spot of Bother, as well as the short story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Pier Falls\u003c\/i\u003e. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003c\/i\u003e won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and is the basis for the Tony Award-winning play. He is the author of a collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, has written and illustrated numerous children's books, and has won awards for both his radio dramas and his television screenplays. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and lives in Oxford, England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Haddon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46864857399524,"sku":"9780593688236","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780593688236.jpg?v=1761085574"},{"product_id":"leaving-home-a-memoir-in-full-colour-mark-haddon-hardcover","title":"Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour -- Mark Haddon, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unflinching, brilliantly written, darkly funny, lavishly illustrated memoir by the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003c\/i\u003e A ringing testament about how one artist sees the world, and how his experiences have shaped his vision\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSimultaneously heart-breaking and hilarious, \u003ci\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult. His parents were not really cut out for the job of having children. They were cut out, respectively, for the jobs of designing abattoirs and keeping a pathologically clean and tidy house. At least he had the consolations of \u003ci\u003eThe Weetabix Solar System Wallchart\u003c\/i\u003e, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAstringently honest and scalpel sharp, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It's about being a cartoonist and a care assistant. It's about family. It's about knickerbocker glories and heart surgery, about papier mâché and mental breakdown and great white sharks. It's about how art, in all its varied forms, provides a way of understanding and coming to terms with the mess of human life. It's richly illustrated throughout with images from the author's childhood, some of them altered in unforgiveable ways. As bracing as it is embracing, \u003ci\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/i\u003e is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Haddon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Doubleday Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385551892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARK HADDON is a writer and artist. His bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time \u003c\/i\u003e(2003) won seventeen literary prizes, was translated into XX languages, and went on to become an award-winning stage adaptation by Simon Stephens. His most recent works of fiction include a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Porpoise\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), and a collection of fables and stories, \u003ci\u003eDogs and Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e (2024).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Haddon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47922565316836,"sku":"9780385551892","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780385551892.jpg?v=1777321350"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/collections\/mark-haddon.oembed","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}