Matt Haig
“To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act.”
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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. He has also written books for children and has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted 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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How to Stop Time
The Sunday Times top ten bestseller from the author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans
Non-fiction
Children's books
Events
“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
“A Note on Wanting”: enjoy this early preview of Matt Haig’s Notes on a Nervous Planet, the follow-up to number one bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive. From the audiobook, read by the author.
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