Hay Festival is launching a European children’s literature festival to take place in Aarhus (the capital of culture in 2017), Denmark, from 25th to 29th October 2017. It will welcome 39 children’s and YA authors under the age of 40 from across Europe. I helped choose the 39 children’s authors along […]
Author: Matt Haig
The Girl Who Saved Christmas
The Girl Who Saved Christmas is my next children’s book and will be published in UK on November 3rd. It’s the sequel to A Boy Called Christmas and tells the story of Father Christmas’s quest to find Amelia, the first child to wake up on the first ever Christmas morning, […]
Reasons to Stay Alive
REASONS TO STAY ALIVE 5 reasons to stay alive: Things that have happened to me that have generated more sympathy than depression: Reasons to Stay Alive: Me talking about Reasons to Stay Alive:
Events
I’m taking a little time out to work on a new book but I will be doing the following events: Wednesday 28th September, 4.15 – 6.15pm, as part of the KU Big Read, Kingston University, Clattern Lecture Theatre, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE, details Saturday […]
British Book Industry Awards
Reasons to Stay Alive and A Boy Called Christmas are shortlisted for British Book Industry Awards! My publicist Jaz Lacey Campbell is also shortlisted for her amazing work on Reasons to Stay Alive.