Brian Conaghan 
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.