Author
Matt Haig
Birth Date
July 3, 1975
(50 Years)
Associated Country
United Kingdom
Matt Haig is a British author known for his bestselling fiction and non-fiction that often explores mental health, resilience, and the search for meaning. He gained international recognition with novels like The Midnight Library, which blends philosophical reflection with accessible storytelling.
In addition to fiction, he has written widely about anxiety, depression, and personal well-being in books such as Reasons to Stay Alive, drawing from his own experiences. His work is known for its honesty, warmth, and ability to connect with readers on emotional and reflective levels.
Haig’s writing often combines simple prose with big ideas, making complex feelings and existential questions approachable, while encouraging readers to consider different perspectives on life, regret, and hope.
In addition to fiction, he has written widely about anxiety, depression, and personal well-being in books such as Reasons to Stay Alive, drawing from his own experiences. His work is known for its honesty, warmth, and ability to connect with readers on emotional and reflective levels.
Haig’s writing often combines simple prose with big ideas, making complex feelings and existential questions approachable, while encouraging readers to consider different perspectives on life, regret, and hope.
Books
The Midnight Train 2026
The Midnight World, Book 2
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.
The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.
To see what kind of person you really were.
For Wilbur his best days were...
The Life Impossible 2025
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no...
The Comfort Book 2021
THE COMFORT BOOK is Haig’s life raft: it’s a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self that things...
The Midnight Library 2020
The Midnight World, Book 1
A woman finds herself in a strange in-between place where she’s given the chance to explore alternate versions of her life—each shaped by a different choice she could have made. What seems like an...
How to Stop Time 2019
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South...
Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him, and learned to live...
The Humans 2014
When an extra-terrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a prominent mathematician at...