Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. He lives in Oxford.
Genres: Children's Fiction, Literary Fiction, Horror
Series
Agent Z
1. Agent Z Meets the Masked Crusader (1993)
2. Agent Z Goes Wild (1994)
3. Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars (1995)
4. Agent Z and the Killer Bananas (2001)
1. Agent Z Meets the Masked Crusader (1993)
2. Agent Z Goes Wild (1994)
3. Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars (1995)
4. Agent Z and the Killer Bananas (2001)
Novels
Gridzbi Spudvetch! (1993)
Titch Johnson (1993)
Real Porky Philips (1994)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2002)
A Spot of Bother (2006)
Boom! (2009)
The Red House (2012)
The Porpoise (2019)
Titch Johnson (1993)
Real Porky Philips (1994)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2002)
A Spot of Bother (2006)
Boom! (2009)
The Red House (2012)
The Porpoise (2019)
Collections
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea (poems) (2005)
Ox-Tales: Fire (2009) (with Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Victoria Hislop, John Le Carré, Vikram Seth, Lionel Shriver, Ali Smith, William Sutcliffe, Jeanette Winterson and Xiaolu Guo)
Six Shorts (2013) (with Junot Díaz, Sarah Hall, Cynan Jones, Toby Litt and Ali Smith)
The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 (2015) (with Jonathan Buckley, Frances Leviston, Hilary Mantel and Jeremy Page)
The Pier Falls and Other Stories (2016)
Two Stories (2017) (with Virginia Woolf)
Eight Ghosts (2017) (with Kate Clanchy, Stuart Evers, Andrew Michael Hurley, Sarah Perry, Max Porter, Kamila Shamsie and Jeanette Winterson)
The New Abject (2020) (with Ramsey Campbell, David Constantine, Margaret Drabble, Saleem Haddad, Matthew Holness, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Adam Marek, Paul Theroux and Lara Williams)
Ox-Tales: Fire (2009) (with Geoff Dyer, Sebastian Faulks, Victoria Hislop, John Le Carré, Vikram Seth, Lionel Shriver, Ali Smith, William Sutcliffe, Jeanette Winterson and Xiaolu Guo)
Six Shorts (2013) (with Junot Díaz, Sarah Hall, Cynan Jones, Toby Litt and Ali Smith)
The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 (2015) (with Jonathan Buckley, Frances Leviston, Hilary Mantel and Jeremy Page)
The Pier Falls and Other Stories (2016)
Two Stories (2017) (with Virginia Woolf)
Eight Ghosts (2017) (with Kate Clanchy, Stuart Evers, Andrew Michael Hurley, Sarah Perry, Max Porter, Kamila Shamsie and Jeanette Winterson)
The New Abject (2020) (with Ramsey Campbell, David Constantine, Margaret Drabble, Saleem Haddad, Matthew Holness, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Adam Marek, Paul Theroux and Lara Williams)
Plays
Polar Bears (2010)
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play (2013) (with Simon Stephens)
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play (2013) (with Simon Stephens)
Picture Books
Gilbert's Gobstopper (1987)
Toni and the Tomato Soup (1989)
A Narrow Escape for Princess Sharon (1989)
At Home (Baby Dinosaurs) (1994)
In the Garden (Baby Dinosaurs) (1994)
On Vacation (Baby Dinosaurs) (1994)
At Playgroup (Baby Dinosaurs) (1994)
On Holiday (Baby Dinosaurs) (1994)
The Sea of Tranquility (1996)
Ocean Star Express (2001)
The Ice Bear's Cave (2002)
Footprints on the Moon (2009)
Toni and the Tomato Soup (1989)
A Narrow Escape for Princess Sharon (1989)
At Home (Baby Dinosaurs) (1994)
In the Garden (Baby Dinosaurs) (1994)
On Vacation (Baby Dinosaurs) (1994)
At Playgroup (Baby Dinosaurs) (1994)
On Holiday (Baby Dinosaurs) (1994)
The Sea of Tranquility (1996)
Ocean Star Express (2001)
The Ice Bear's Cave (2002)
Footprints on the Moon (2009)
Novellas
Non fiction
Secret Agent Handbook (1999)
Stop What You're Doing and Read This! (2011) (with Carmen Callil, Michael Rosen, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson)
Stop What You're Doing and Read This! (2011) (with Carmen Callil, Michael Rosen, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson)
Awards
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Mark Haddon recommends

How I Live Now (2004)
Meg Rosoff
"That rare, rare thing, a first novel with a sustained, magical and utterly faultless voice. After five pages I knew that she couls persuade me to believe almost anything."

The Raw Shark Texts (2007)
Steven Hall
"The bastard love child of The Matrix, Jaws and The Da Vinci Code. Very entertaining."

The Girls (2016)
Emma Cline
"I don’t know which is more amazing, Emma Cline’s understanding of human beings or her mastery of language."

Coming Up For Air (2020)
Sarah Leipciger
"Where breathing becomes drowning, and life teeters on the very edge."

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House (2021)
Cherie Jones
"A gripping thriller, a symphony of voices and a novel of deep empathy."
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