Matt Haig Audiobooks

A writer at home in every form and audience, heading out on The Midnight Train

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is Matt Haig?

Matt Haig, born in 1975, is an English author and journalist with an unusually broad range: he writes fiction and non-fiction alike, for children as well as adults, and much of his storytelling sits in speculative territory, where the everyday world is tilted just far enough to show something true about it.

That refusal to stay in one lane is the defining feature of the career. Few contemporary British writers move as freely between audiences and forms, and the two halves feed each other – a journalist’s directness on one page, a novelist’s imagination on the next. It has made him a writer people arrive at from very different directions, which is its own quiet achievement.

Matt Haig in audiobooks

Speculative fiction tends to flourish in audio, where a changed world can be conjured in minutes, and Haig’s work sits naturally in that space. Our catalogue features The Midnight Train, whose title alone carries the sense of threshold and possibility that draws readers to his fiction – the hour when ordinary rules loosen, the journey that might go anywhere.

Because Haig also writes for children and in non-fiction, listeners come to him by every route; whichever one brings you, the crossing between his worlds is short. The Midnight Train is a fine place to board.