Matt Haig
Matt Haig was BookTrust's eighth online Writer in Residence. His first novel for young readers, Shadow Forest, won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and the Gold Smarties Award. He is also the author of various adult novels, including the bestsellers The Last Family in England and The Radleys. Reviewers have called his writing 'totally engrossing', 'touching, quirky and macabre' and 'so surprising and strange that it vaults into a realm all of its own'. His books have been translated into 25 languages. He lives in York.
Books
A Boy Called Christmas
Author: Matt Haig
Illustrator: Chris Mould
Publisher: Canongate
Interest age: 10+
Reading age: 10+
A Boy Called Christmas is a tale of adventure, snow, kidnapping, elves, more snow, and a boy called Nikolas, who isn't afraid to believe in magic.
Echo Boy
Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Bodley Head Children's Books
Interest age: 13+
Reading age: 13+
Audrey lives in a future world where technology has changed everything and where families are served by cyborgs who unquestioningly obey their orders. But when her parents are killed by their cyborg, Audrey is in terrible danger.
Shadow Forest
Author: Matt Haig Illustrator: Sandy Nightingale
Publisher: Random House
Interest age: 9+
Reading age: 9+
This fantasy story is both touching and humorous, and is sure to have wide appeal.
The Radleys
Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Walker Cannongate
Interest age: 14+
Reading age: 12+
Matt Haig takes an original and witty approach to the supernatural genre in this quirky young adult novel about the Radleys: abstaining vampires, living in a peaceful English village.
The Runaway Troll
Author: Matt Haig Illustrator: Julek Heller
Publisher: Random House
Interest age: 9+
Reading age: 9+
Samuel's not allowed to enter Shadow Forest. But what's to stop the forest from coming to him? There's one thing every troll child dreads more than anything - and that's being sent to the Betterer.
To Be A Cat
Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Bodley Head
Interest age: 9+
Reading age: 9+
Barney Willow doesn’t think life could get much worse: his parents are divorced, he hates his new school...