When Mr Dog Bites

BRIAN CONAGHAN was getting fed up with rejection. He had published a book, and it had been translated into German and Korean, yet his second manuscript was rejected by all the publishers and agents in Ireland. He hit lucky with the English agent Ben Illis; he read the book, loved it, and secured a publishing deal with Bloomsbury. And the crossover book looks set to become a bestseller.
When Mr Dog Bites features Dylan Mint; a teenager at a special school who has Tourette syndrome. When he overhears a doctor saying he will die within a year, he makes a list of things to do before he snuffs it. These include having sex with a girl, and preferably his classmate Michelle Malloy; making sure his best friend, Amir, won’t be bullied, and getting his soldier father back from war.