The Dead Fathers Club. Matt Haig

      

      Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been published in over forty languages. @matthaig1 matthaig.com

      Also By Matt Haig

       The Last Family in England

       The Dead Fathers Club

       The Possession of Mr Cave

       The Radleys

       The Humans

       Humans: An A–Z

       Reasons to Stay Alive

       How to Stop Time

      For Children

       The Runaway Troll

       Shadow Forest

       To Be A Cat

       Echo Boy

       A Boy Called Christmas

       The Girl Who Saved Christmas

       Father Christmas and Me

      Published in Great Britain in 2018 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

      canongate.co.uk

      Copyright © Matt Haig 2006

      First published in Great Britain in 2006 by Jonathan Cape

      This digital edition first published in 2017 by Canongate Books

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 78689 325 3

      eISBN 978 1 78689 326 0

       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