Matt Haig

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2,177 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · The Midnight Train by Matt Haig with Matt Haig · 28 May 2026 podcast

which was really well-written stuff, but it wasn't trying to break everything down.

And I suppose it was before we had Freud and before we sort of started to look at psychology in a different way.

But I really like that kind of like,

simplicity i suppose you know and we're all like it yeah well not everyone's like it in music but i mean you know most musicians would be very happy to have written here there and everywhere or something that's so simple perfect yeah yeah in books sometimes there's a

more commercial than literary.

I think my influences are kind of from everywhere, really.

No, I mean, and I was definitely like, I feel like I did my time.

I mean, this is like my 25th book.

Just writing books.

I mean, I've written some very short,

ones reasons to say life's like a pamphlet you know it's basically like there's so few that's a good point you could do the introduction also you've done which i think is really interesting obviously you've done kids and adults which is again not everyone manages to cross the hat successfully and then cross back

Yeah, but I actually, I mean, I know you write for kids as well.

And so you might agree with this, but I think I've learned more writing for kids in some ways.

I think, and I'm not just saying this to be patronising, I genuinely believe children are better readers in some ways, in the sense of imaginations.

the better.

They're not necessarily believing in unicorns, but they'll go with the daydream.

Whereas if you're writing sort of fantasy for adults, you have to hold their hands so much to make the fantasy believable.

You can't just rush into it.

Still not as hard as Wind in the Willows.

I just tried to do that recently.

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