The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone ...
The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong.
This is a beautifully crafted and unexpectedly moving book.
John Harrison is an unlikely and unromantic hero but hero he is; the steady quiet genius working doggedly away in his Lincolnshire backwater on an instrument that would change the world. In that great world beyond his workshop ambition, greed, vanity and the exigency of trade, compete to create the drama that drives the narrative. ...