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 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
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!)
Read Like a Writer with our new podcast
We’ve launched a new podcast together with Faber and Serpent’s Tail: called Read Like a Writer, it’s a celebration of authors, books and independent bookshops. The first episode featured our very own Matt Haig (author of the number one bestseller Notes on a Nervous Planet). And episode number two was with E. Foley & B. Coates, authors of What Would Boudica Do? from Faber. Subscribe to Read Like a Writer through your favourite podcast app now!
In a short extract from his book, Notes on a Nervous Planet, Matt Haig talks about the news and about anxiety – and the relationship between the two. Narration from the audiobook, read by the author.
Matt Haig was interviewed in the Observer about his new book Notes on a Nervous Planet.
“Platforms like Twitter and Instagram try to get us as emotionally and psychologically invested in them as possible. And sometimes, if you just go on Twitter and passively scroll down your feed, it depends who you follow of course, it just seems like a fireball of anger. Wherever you are on the political spectrum, you can find something within five minutes to be really, really cross or anxious about. And there’s a psychological fall-out from all that.”
Observer
“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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