Matt Haig

Matt Haig is an author of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books whose writing explores time, regret, mental resilience, belonging, and the strangeness of being human. The Humans views ordinary life through an outsider's perspective, balancing comedy with questions about connection. How to Stop Time turns extreme longevity into a story about memory and attachment, while The Radleys places hidden identity inside an apparently conventional family.

His nonfiction addresses emotional survival in a more direct register. Reasons to Stay Alive combines personal reflection with reassurance, and The Comfort Book gathers short pieces designed to be returned to in difficult moments. A Boy Called Christmas brings Haig's warmth and melancholy to younger readers through a seasonal adventure. The Humans is a strong route into his humane speculative fiction; Reasons to Stay Alive shows how the same concerns change in nonfiction.