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

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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.

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I loved Dylan Mint. He made me laugh out loud and his tenacity had me rooting for him from the first page Stephen Kelman

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Conaghan, Brian
Brian Conaghan was born and raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge but now lives in Dublin. He has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. For many years Brian worked as a teacher and taught in Scotland, Italy and Ireland. His first YA novel, When Mr Dog Bites, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2015 and attracted both praise and controversy for its honest, moving and humorous depiction of a teenage boy with Tourette´s syndrome. His second, The Bombs That Brought Us Together, won the Costa Children´s Book Award in 2016. We Come Apart, a verse novel co-authored with Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan, published in 2017 to widespread critical acclaim.

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