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 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.
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
The follow-up to the number one Sunday Times bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive
“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
Evie and the Animals is out now!
Evie posters and bookmarks
If you’d like an Evie and the Animals poster, whether it’s to decorate your bedroom or a bookshop, we’ve got one that you can download and print! And bookmarks too!
An Evie Activity Pack!
True or false animal facts, a spot the difference, a wordsearch and more! Download this Evie and the Animals activity pack to use at home or in school.
“When Aada started her new school, the pixie came too. But this school was a place, where it was hard to be true.”
“The reason Evie was special is that she had an Ability. The Ability had a capital A because it was a very important ability. She could communicate with animals.”
Here is the very start of the very special, brand new audio edition of The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig, read by none other than Olivia Colman! And for every copy sold of this exclusive edition, we’re donating 50p to Unicef UK. Get it at Audible!
(The video’s animated with illustrations from the book by Chris Mould!)
