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

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig cover

The Midnight Library

Evie in the Jungle by Matt Haig cover

Evie in the Jungle

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Reasons to Stay Alive cover

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“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.”