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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...

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,...

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‘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...

An Astrologer on Decoding Your Dreams, Not Micromanaging the Universe and Why Things Not Going Your Way Is Exactly the P...

Journalist-turned-dream guru Matt Galea wants you to listen to what your nightmares are trying to tell you.

‘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...

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...

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."

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.

‘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...

If An Ordinary Person Did This Every Morning, They’d Change Their Brain Chemistry

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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...

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