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 and The Humans. 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.

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“I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.”

How to Stop Time

“I know that some of you reading this are convinced humans are a myth, but I am here to state that they do actually exist”

“She was the first child. The girl who saved Christmas. And Father Christmas would never forget it…”

The Girl Who Saved Christmas

“An impossibility is just a possibility you don’t understand yet”

A Boy Called Christmas

A Boy Called Christmas cover

Listen to Stephen Fry read from A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig! But only if you believe in impossible things.

Chris Mould, the illustrator of A Boy Called Christmas, in his studio

Reasons to Stay Alive cover

Listen to Reasons to Stay Alive

“To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business”

Reasons to Stay Alive

The Humans cover

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The Girl Who Saved Christmas cover

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“17 Orchard Lane is the home of the Radleys and, despite their very best efforts, they are anything but normal”

How to Stop Time cover

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“humans are mysterious, even to themselves, and it is this mystery that keeps them going. It is the mystery that makes love possible.”