Matt Haig
“To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act.”
Photo credit: Kan Lailey
Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.
How to Stop Time
The life-affirming new novel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans
Non-fiction
Children's books
“Haig is adamant that ‘one of the uses of the arts is to keep us sane’, and that ‘reading is a route out of yourself’. He is almost evangelical about the power of reading to do good. ‘I think books can save us and I think they sort of saved me,’ he says.”
Guardian
‘A timely memoir of mental illness reads as a highly personal and creative response to crisis’
Lettie Kennedy
The Guardian
Matt Haig lists 5 Reasons to Stay Alive
“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…”
Listen to Stephen Fry read from A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig! But only if you believe in impossible things.
