The Humans

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Frances Shaw has a Ph.D. on Matthew’s Gospel, and has taught the Gospels module for the ministry course in Guildford diocese for more than 20 years. Before retirement, she worked as a religious-books editor, and is enthusiastic about literacy and theological education; she is a trustee of Feed the Minds and Grove Books. She is aware of a certain sense of irony in writing about clothing, as she enjoys wearing more casual styles (she is cold most of the time), and dislikes shopping. There are a lot of idiots in your species. Lots and lots. You are not one of them. Hold your ground. It's harder and harder to get to that place of creative freedom where you think: 'If I was just starting out now and this was the first thing I'd ever put out, what would it be?' In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved. And replaced by even bigger myths. He studied at Hull University and Leeds University and currently lives in York. After running his own internet marketing company and working for a nightclub in Spain, he became a full-time writer. He writes for various national newspapers, including The Guardian and The Independent.

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Not that Haig is overly concerned with looking for the meaning of life. He believes that “meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.” Neither is he looking to organised religion for answers, but readers may well detect a God-shaped hole at the heart of this compelling adventure, with plenty of room left for faith to find a way. Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human. Moore, Anna (17 November 2018). "Matt Haig: 'I wanted to end it all, but surviving and thriving is the lesson I pass on' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 9 April 2022.

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It is not so much the story, but read it for that. It is not so much the characters, but read it for that too. It is for the statement it makes on the flawed yet wondrous nature of humans. This book will resonate with you long after you read it. (if not, we can't be friends.) You will be convinced the author himself is from another world, sent here to give us some wisdom, but perhaps also fearful if we can handle it. I liken it to "Illusions - The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach You shouldn’t have been born. Your existence is as close to impossible as can be. To dismiss the impossible is to dismiss yourself. The Humans" is the story of an alien who is sent to Earth to eliminate all traces of the newly found proof of the Reimann hypothesis, which is said to be too powerful and dangerous knowledge for an immature species as us. The alien possesses the mathematician who proves the hypothesis, a professor at a prestigious university, who is also having a lot of family problems. Good premise, but you can see where it is heading. Haig’s second novel The Dead Fathers Club (2006) is a father-son story that, according to the author, ‘migrated slowly towards Hamlet’. The narrator is 11-year-old Philip Noble, whose dead publican father reappears as a ghost to demand that Philip avenge his murder by Uncle Alan, the new landlord of The Castle and would-be seducer of Philip’s mother. The novel ‘pushes and pulls at Shakespeare's play in such a way that only half the fun is … in spotting the parallels’ (Gerard Woodward, The Guardian, 1 July 2006 ). ‘The story is so surprising and strange that it vaults into a realm all of its own’ while the child’s perspective ‘brings out the absurd comedy of Shakespeare's tragedy’ and allows the author to indulge his ‘innocently acute eye for detail and … delightfully weird imagination’. Bright, alive, vibrant. Haig – novelist, self-help guru, periodic endurer of depression and anxiety – needs these colours, that view, this sun, even the statement-making front door.

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The Runaway Troll (Cape, 2008); US title, Samuel Blink and the Runaway Troll LCCN 2008-702 ISBN 9780399247408His multi-award winning popular first novel for children, Shadow Forest, was published in 2007 and its sequel, The Runaway Troll, in 2009. Since then he has written To Be A Cat (2013); Echo Boy (2014) and A Boy Called Christmas (2015) with illustrations by Chris Mould. If you peer down the hill from Matt Haig’s immaculate townhouse in Brighton, you can see the sea, which today is shimmeringly blue under a hot sun. “We bought the house for that view,” he says as he answers the door, which is painted turquoise. Bright, alive, vibrant. Haig – novelist, self-help guru, periodic endurer of depression and anxiety – needs these colours, that view, this sun, even the statement-making front door. In 2020, Matt Haig released his novel The Midnight Library about a young woman named Nora Seed who is unhappy with her choices in life. During the night she tries to kill herself but ends up in a library managed by her school librarian, Mrs. Elm. The library is between life and death with millions of books filled with stories of her life had she made some decisions differently. In this library, she then tries to find the life in which she's the most content. [11] It was shortlisted for the 2021 British Book Awards "Fiction book of the year". [12] The Midnight Library was adapted for radio and broadcast in ten episodes on BBC Radio 4 in December 2020. [13] I enjoyed this story by Matt Haig so much more than his book The Midnight Library (see my review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...) that I had a hard time putting it down. His concept of looking at life from the eyes of a nonhuman is extremely well-written. Mental health is dealt with thoughtfully. It is philosophical without being "in-your-face preachy".

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A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel. Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger, Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will, love, marriage, logic, immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy. The TimesA Boy Called Christmas (Canongate Books, 2015) illustrated by Chris Mould LCCN 2015-43442 ISBN 9780399552656 Sometimes, to be yourself you will have to forget yourself and become something else. Your character is not a fixed thing. You will sometimes have to move to keep up with it. The movie rights have gone to Tanya Seghatchian (Harry Potter, My Summer of Love producer) at Apocalypto and I’m currently writing the screenplay. But know this. Men are not from Mars. Women are not from Venus. Do not fall for categories. Everyone is everything. Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theatre of your mind for the main role.

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The Humans is a romantic look at people, at what builds us and what we have achieved. This can be seen in the wistful glances of poetry and music. If you took out all of the narrative aspects, The Humans could be seen as a collection of essays from a man pondering his own existence. Thank you Matt, for this map you have drawn for me and many others. Utter Biblio 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. Scott Fitzgerald. In an interview with The Guardian, Haig revealed the book has been optioned by StudioCanal films, and Benedict Cumberbatch had been "lined up to star" in the film adaptation. [8] Reasons to Stay Alive won the Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards in 2016 and How to Stop Time was nominated in 2017. [9] In August 2018, he wrote lyrics for English singer and songwriter Andy Burrows's music album, the title of which was derived from Haig's book Reasons to Stay Alive. [10] A quark is not the smallest thing. The wish you have on your death-bed – to have worked harder – that is the smallest thing. Because it won’t be there.The alien’s inability to conform to society’s conventions leads to some hilariously chaotic scenes. SFX magazine