The Dead Fathers Club

Matt Haig

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781786893253
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786893260
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

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FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him.

Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost's relentless demands for revenge. But can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• The First Time I Saw Dad After He Died
• King of the CASTLE
• The Bad News
• The Terrors
• Guppy Number Six
• Uncle Alan is Dangerous
• The Hole in the Wall
• Hadrians Wall
• The Disco
• After the Disco
• The Mini Bus
• Beatbeatbeat
• Dad dy
• Mrs Palefort
• Rudyard Kipling
• Angelfish
• The Men Who Smashed the Pub
• Barbarism
• Sin
• Mr Fairview and the Trout
• The Four Layers of the Earth
• Ross and Gary
• The Good Shepherd
• The Dog Noises
• Spiderman 2
• The Hungry School
• 100 Miles
• Rugby
• Halloween and the Ra Ra Ghosts and Sleepy Eye Terry
• PrayStation
• The Silent Partner
• Saturday in Boots
• The Golden House
• Dancing Queen
• The Ghost Wind
• The Fish in the Sea
• Mr Wormwood and the Melting Point of Metals
• Ray Ray Goodwin
• The Changemaker
• The Murder of Gonzago
• Slaves
• The Colours in the Fish Tank
• The Pub Quiz
• Under the H
• The Posting
• The Bath Bomb
• The Umbrella Made of Stars
• The Furies
• Time Machine
• The Real Uncle Alan
• Daddy Long Legs
• Pocket Money
• Emperor Nero and Emperor Neros Mum
• The Condom Machine
• The Ticking Clocks
• Tick Tock Tick Tock
• Going Home
• Diazepam
• Watching TV with Mum
• The Ticking Days
• The Drips and the Drops and the Windsor Knot
• The Wedding
• The Garage
• The Land of Nod
• The Voices Out of the Wall
• This Bastard Town
• Spitting to the Grass
• Ghost Words
• Dead and Gone Dead and Gone
• Mr Fairview Makes Me Tell the Truth
• Someone to See Me
• The Paper Bird
• Standing on the Bridge
• In the River
• In the White Water
• Lying on the Mud
• The People Who Come and Sit on the Chair
• The First Time I Wake Up
• The Second Time I Woke Up
• The Bird Out of the Window