THE PIER FALLS

An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle. A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas E ve.In this first collection of stories by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon demonstrates t wo things...[Read more]