The Humans
- 20 Jul 2023
- 9781805300175
- £9.99
- 320 pp
- 129×198mm
- 18 Feb 2021
- 9781838854423
- £20.99
- 8 hrs 10 min
- 9 May 2013
- 9780857868770
- £7.99
- 320 pp
In a few words
‘Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian
In a few words
‘Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian
In a few words
‘Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus’ Guardian
Matt Haig's hilarious novel puts our species on the spot
A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel. Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger, Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will, love, marriage, logic, immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy
Matt Haig's hilarious novel puts our species on the spot
A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel. Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger, Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will, love, marriage, logic, immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy
Matt Haig's hilarious novel puts our species on the spot
A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel. Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger, Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will, love, marriage, logic, immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy
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*THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, Matt Haig’s new novel from the world of The Midnight Library, is arriving in May 2026*
THERE’S NO PLANET LIKE HOME
After an ‘incident’ one wet Friday night where he was found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, (and he’s a dog).
Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mind about the human race?
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THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME. OR IS THERE?
After an ‘incident’ one wet Friday night where he is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, and he’s a dog.
Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mind about the human race . . . ?
More about
the book
*THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, Matt Haig’s new novel from the world of The Midnight Library, is arriving in May 2026*
THERE’S NO PLANET LIKE HOME
After an ‘incident’ one wet Friday night where he was found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, (and he’s a dog).
Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mind about the human race?
Great idea, great plot and superb comedy, especially from the alien's puzzled analyses of primitive human ways
Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus
A novel with an enormous heart, infused with a sense of gratitude for everything that makes us who we are
Charlotte Heathcote
Daily ExpressHaig's unexpectedly raw tale of love, belonging, and peanut butter . . . Funny, clever and quite, quite lovely
Sam Baker
Sunday TimesGreat idea, great plot and superb comedy, especially from the alien's puzzled analyses of primitive human ways
Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus
A novel with an enormous heart, infused with a sense of gratitude for everything that makes us who we are
Charlotte Heathcote
Daily ExpressHaig's unexpectedly raw tale of love, belonging, and peanut butter . . . Funny, clever and quite, quite lovely
Sam Baker
Sunday TimesA brilliant exploration of what it is to love, and to be human, The Humans is both heartwarming and hilarious, weird, and utterly wonderful. One of the best books I've read in a very long time
S J Watson
A novel with an enormous heart, infused with a sense of gratitude for everything that makes us who we are
Charlotte Heathcote
Daily ExpressThe Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin
Jeanette Winterson
Extraordinary
Matt Haig
View profileMatt Haig has written a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction. This includes the novels The Humans, How to Stop Time and The Midnight Library, several children’s books and most recently the self-help book The Comfort Book.
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Matt Haig
View profileMatt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. He has also written many books for children, including most recently the Sunday Times bestseller, The Truth Pixie, and he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal. He has sold more than a million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages.
@matthaig1 | matthaig.com
Matt Haig
View profileMatt Haig has written a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction. This includes the novels The Humans, How to Stop Time and The Midnight Library, several children’s books and most recently the self-help book The Comfort Book.
@matthaig1 | @mattzhaig | matthaig.com
