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“I feel gratitude because I was convinced I would be dead at the age of 25.' Author Matt Haig celebrates life

Suicidal depression, ADHD and autism have given the best-selling author an appreciation of life that fuels his writing. His latest book, The Midnight Train, is a time-travelling lo...

Love in the time of time travel: MATT HAIG on his new novel

With a new book out this month and a couple of Welsh stops on his promo schedule, Matt Haig gives Julia Bottoms some of his time. The post Love in the time of time travel: MATT HAI...

The Midnight Train by Matt Haig

Matt Haig's The Midnight Train follows an ageing bookseller on a ghostly steam-engine ride through his own life. A warm, spoiler-free review of the second Midnight World novel, aft...

‘I laughed out loud dozens of times’: authors choose books to make you fall back in love with reading

From a darkly comic new novel to a gripping 1950s memoir – Katherine Rundell, Malala Yousafzai, Matt Haig and others appearing at Hay festival pick titles to tempt youMalala Yousaf...

Yann Martel: ‘I hate the rich people of this world – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’

The Canadian author on good writing advice from Martin Amis, his love for digging and getting rid of billionairesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYour novels Life of Pi,...

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

"We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other."

‘I don’t know what could top that’: debut author Jem Calder on being discovered by Sally Rooney

His first story collection, Reward System, was a cult hit. Now comes a novel that’s a bleakly funny appraisal of millennial relationships, technology and ennui. He talks about love...

‘The manosphere is dead and no one cares about Andrew Tate any more’: the poet taking on toxic masculinity

Sam Browne’s blend of brutal honesty and droll observation has made him a viral sensation. He talks about growing up in Southend, mental health and the healing power of poetryOn a...

Michael Rosen’s Sad Book: A Beautiful Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake

"Sometimes I'm sad and I don’t know why. It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me up."

‘It’s dated quite badly, but…’: Max Harris’s life in books

Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits of Aotearoa writers, and guests. This week: Max Harris – barrister, writer and Labour candidat...

Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention

A habit is a spell you cast upon yourself that only you can break. “We are spinning our own fates, good or evil,” William James wrote in his pioneering treatise on the psychology o...

Using Absurdity to Expose the Faulty, Inhumane Logic of Our World

Look to your left. Now look to your right. I’m 100 percent confident that any one of those people in your eyeline—regardless of their reading taste—would love a book by Rachel Khon...

The Art Of Escaping: The Lives We Live In Our Heads

Michael Jackson, one of the greatest singers of all time, once sang about making the world a better place. Clearly, we still struggle with that. Just when things begin to fall into...

Baby names, long emotional messages to men, unattainable life goals: what girls have in their phone notes

CAMERON, Ezra, Hector? 22 reasons why you’re emotionally dead and need therapy, Mark. Become size eight. A woman’s Notes app offers regrettable insights.

Solace House by Will Maclean review – immensely fun gothic horror with a psychedelic twist

A dead poet’s cluttered mansion is the setting for a heady brew of magic, mystery and mushrooms“Man,” says one of Will Maclean’s characters on catching sight for the first time of...

The Weight of Chalk Dust

A Story of Unfinished Lines and Silent MelodiesContinue reading on Write Your World »

Matt Goodwin questioned why Waterstones isn’t displaying his ‘bestselling’ new paperback, and the replies pointed out th...

It’s been a tough 2026 so far for Matt Goodwin. Back in February poor Matt, representing the Reform party, lost the Gorton and Denton by-election to the ‘woke’ Green party candidat...

Hacks for Negative Thoughts

A wonderful guy comes up on my socials promising me neuro hacks for negative thoughts and all kinds of ways to ‘UpSpiral’ my life. His name is Michael Hunter from UpSpiral Life...

Book review: 100 Reasons for Living: The diary of a grateful heart by Richard Carter

“HOW can I write a book about hope and reasons for living at a time like this in our world?” Richard Carter does it in 100 wildly diverse vignettes, some just a paragraph, others a...

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending April 17

The top 10 sales lists recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1 Counting Down with Theodore Brown by Daniel Devenney...

Matt Berninger on Writing 'Get Sunk', Surfacing From Depression and What He Plays When He's Sad

Ahead of his first solo Australian tour, the unmistakable voice of The National sat down with us for a wide-ranging chat about songwriting, sadness, and Leonard Cohen binges.

When Hope Feels Gone: Financial Stress, Emotional Burnout, and the Psychology of Survival

‘I’m so grateful I got to live these days’: A Ghost in the Throat author Doireann Ní Ghríofa on recovering from depressi...

The acclaimed author and poet talks about her new book, telling the true stories of patients at a derelict Victorian psychiatric hospital – a place in which she might have found he...

How Roald Dahl sparked a love for Stephen King in author Jane Flett

Jane Flett answers our burning questions, what is she reading, what book would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, and what left her cold?