When Mr Dog Bites

Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015

Hilariously touching and outrageously unforgettable: Mark Haddon''s Christopher Boone meets Holden Caulfield on one *#@! of a journey. . .

Dylan Mint has Tourette''s. Being sixteen is hard enough, but Dylan''s life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in – the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed... But a routine visit to the hospital changes everything. Overhearing a hushed conversation between the doctor and his mother, Dylan discovers that he''s going to die next March. So he grants himself three parting wishes or ''Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It''. But as Dylan sets out to make his wishes come true, he discovers that nothing – and no-one – is quite as he had previously supposed.