Čerstvý důchodce George, jeho žena Jean a jejich dvě dospělé děti – Katie a Jamie – jsou obyčejná anglická rodina, jejíž členové si život komplikují tak, jako se to obvykle dělává. George trpí utkvělou představou, že má rakovinu. Jean má milence. Rozvedená maminka Katie má pochybnosti o svém snoubenci. Homosexuál Jamie má trable s přítelem. Rozbuškou rodinného pekla se stane Katiina nadcházející svatba, kterou zbytek rodiny od začátku mlčky neschvaluje. Mark Haddon, autor Podivného případu se psem, tentokrát vtipně a svižně popisuje, jaké...

Co byste dělali, kdybyste zjistili, že se vaše na první pohled nudná a nenápadná dějepisářka v soukromí chová... přinejmenším divně? Džimbo je obyčejný školák, který má už tak svých starostí dost: jeho táta nemá práci a k tomu příšerně vaří, maminka má naopak práce až moc a starší sestra je naprosto nemožná. Když ale spolu se svým všetečným kamarádem Charliem začne zkoumat, co mají záhadné školní události znamenat, jdou všechny všední problémy stranou. Události ovšem naberou nečekaný směr a klučičí pátrání se brzy zvrhne v...

Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it.

At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the way he cares for her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by the way the wedding planning gets in the way of her affair with one of her husband's former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie...

Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks.

A murder mystery like no other, this novel features Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. When he finds a neighbour's dog murdered, he sets out on a journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

Polar Bears is a captivating tale by award-winning writer Mark Haddon. Balancing humour and pathos, it tells of one man's struggle to love, support and live with someone suffering from a psychological condition. With an elliptical structure and teasing timeline, the play handles the subject sensitively, with vivid, sympathetically-drawn characters and nicely-balanced dialectics. Polar Bears is thought-provoking and intelligent, with echoes of Nietszchean philosophy, and it refuses to offer any easy answers for those embroiled in mental instability. The plot is as follows:...

Fifteen-year-old Christopher has a photographic memory. He understands maths. He understands science. What he can't understand are other human beings. When he finds his neighbour's dog, Wellington, lying dead on the lawn, he decides to track down the killer and write a murder mystery about it.

A murder mystery like no other, this novel features Christopher Boone, a 15 year-old who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. When he finds a neighbour's dog murdered, he sets out on a terrifying journey destined to turn his whole world upside down.