In 2017, Haig published How to Stop Time, a novel about a man who appears to be 40 but has, in fact, lived for more than 400 years and has met Shakespeare, Captain Cook and F. Threatens the stability of the planet who must also cope with the home life which accompanies his task. It is the story of an alien who takes the identity of a university lecturer whose work in mathematics Haig's vampire novel The Radleys was published in 2011. He followed it with the sequel, Runaway Troll, in 2008. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize in 2007. His children's novel, Shadow Forest, is a fantasy that begins with the horrific death of the protagonists' parents. His third adult novel, The Possession of Mr Cave, deals with an obsessive father desperately trying to keep his teenage daughter safe. His second novel Dead Fathers Club is based on Hamlet, telling the story of an introspective 11-year-old dealing with the recent death of his father and the subsequent appearance of his father's ghost. The Last Family in England retells Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 with the protagonists as dogs.
His novels are often dark and quirky takes on family life. His bestselling children's novel, Father Christmas and Me, is currently being adapted for film, produced by StudioCanal and Blueprint Pictures.
His work of non-fiction, Reasons to Stay Alive, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and was in the UK top 10 for 46 weeks. Haig is the author of both fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. He went on to study English and History at the University of Hull. Haig was born on 3 July 1975 in Sheffield. He has written both fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults, often in the speculative fiction genre. Matt Haig (born 3 July 1975) is an English author and journalist. Haig at Foyle's Bookstore, London, February 2016
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