Mark Haddon Books in Order

Gilbert drops his bright red gobstopper down a drain, and the sweet heads off on an absurdly long journey through sea, sky, and far beyond. Years later, it finds its way back to him.

In this playful spin on King Midas, Toni discovers what happens when one wish turns everything she touches into tomato soup. It is a bright, silly cautionary tale about getting exactly the wrong thing you asked for.

Princess Sharon would rather play football and talk to the royal cat than marry creepy Count Colin. With an arranged marriage closing in, she needs help from an arch-wizard and a bit of luck.

On an outdoor adventure trip in Wales, Ben, Barney, and Jenks try to keep Agent Z alive far from home. Rival kids, adults with rules, and rumours of hidden loot turn the holiday into chaos.

Ben discovers that his friends Barney and Jenks are behind the mysterious pranks signed Agent Z, then joins them himself. Soon the three boys are waging comic war on bullies, teachers, and boredom.

A bright board book that follows baby dinosaurs through familiar things at home. It is simple, playful, and built for very young readers learning everyday words.

This board book takes baby dinosaurs through the small routines and objects of playgroup. It is bright, simple, and made for toddlers who like naming familiar things.

Baby dinosaurs explore flowers, plants, and garden objects in this cheerful early board book. It is a simple, colourful way to share first words with very young readers.

Baby dinosaurs head off on holiday and meet the objects and sights of a day by the water. It is a gentle first-words book for very young dinosaur fans.

Jim and Charlie plant a listening device in the staff room and hear their teachers speaking a language that makes no sense. Soon they are mixed up with aliens, school trouble, and a mission that could save Earth.

Jimbo and Charlie bug the staff room and overhear their teachers speaking a strange language. What starts as snooping turns into a fast, funny science fiction adventure with aliens and real danger.

Porky Philips is shy, unhappy, and used to being laughed at. When a school play and a strange double start taking over his life, he has to stop hiding and find some confidence.

This playful activity book invites young readers to train as secret agents with puzzles, codes, quizzes, and missions. It is less a story than a hands-on manual for spy-minded kids.

Titch feels ordinary next to everyone else, and the only thing he can do well is balance a fork on his nose. That odd talent becomes a way to help his local hospital and see himself differently.

The Crane Grove Crew plan their biggest prank yet when creepy new neighbours move in and one of them becomes obsessed with space. A penguin, a fake alien message, and Ben's crush on Samantha make everything messier.

A boy waits for the moon landing with his scrapbook, imagination, and eyes fixed on the sky. Haddon turns that moment of wonder into a warm picture book about science, childhood, and big dreams.

An adult looks back on the night of the first moon landing and the childhood obsession that led up to it. It is a quiet, dreamy picture book about wonder, memory, and looking up.

Ben's awful cousin T.J. comes to stay just as Agent Z is gearing up for more trouble. Bananas, bad schemes, and one very crowded house turn a miserable visit into mayhem.

Joe is bored when bad weather traps him at a seaside hotel, until the owner shows him a magical train world in the attic. The journey through tiny landscapes turns a dull day into something dreamlike.

When fresh snow transforms the world outside, three children head out into a landscape that feels almost Arctic. Their play turns into an icy adventure shaped by stories of a hidden ice bear.

Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone finds his neighbour's dog dead and decides to solve the case like a detective. The search pushes him beyond his carefully ordered world and into painful truths about his family.

This play version retells Christopher Boone's investigation of Wellington's death through the language of theatre. The mystery remains central, but the stage form makes the fear, sensory overload, and family strain feel immediate.

George Hall wants a quiet retirement, but his daughter's wedding, his wife's affair, and his son's unraveling life send the family spinning. Then George notices a lesion on his hip and starts quietly losing his grip.

This play follows a woman trying to hold on to her sanity and the family members pulled into that struggle. It is intimate, tense, and more interested in shifting realities and relationships than neat answers.

This essay collection brings together writers, critics, and researchers, including Winterson, to argue for the value of reading. The pieces explore pleasure, attention, access to books, and the way stories can change a life.

After their mother's death, Richard invites his estranged sister Angela and both families to a rented house near the Welsh border. A week of shared meals and old resentments brings secrets, longing, and grief to the surface.

Haddon's first poetry collection moves between love poems, comic pieces, lullabies, and stranger dreamlike turns. It shows the same sharp eye and dark humour as his fiction, but in a looser, more surprising form.

These stories range from collapsing piers and Mars missions to moments of sudden violence and private panic. Haddon keeps changing setting and genre, but each piece is precise, unsettling, and deeply interested in people under pressure.

This short volume gathers three pieces about quarrelling relatives, uneasy reunions, and the strange pull of home. It is a quick way into Haddon's sharp, funny, and uncomfortable writing about family life.

A young woman survives a plane crash as a baby and grows up hidden away by her wealthy father. When an outsider gets too close, the story opens into a violent, sea-soaked adventure that leaps between modern life and myth.

This collection reworks myth, legend, and darker modern tales into eight stories about love, cruelty, mortality, and what makes a monster. Haddon brings Greek material, science fiction, and family tension into the same imaginative space.

In this illustrated memoir, Haddon pieces together childhood memories, family photographs, drawings, and later reflections. The result is funny, painful, and searching, a book about growing up in a difficult home and making a life through art.