Matt Haig

It's Prince who is the narrator and protagonist of this tale. An earnest young dog, he strives hard to live up to the tenets of the Labrador Pact. Mentored by an elderly labrador named Henry, whom he meets each day in the park, Prince takes his responsibilities seriously, and as things in the Hunter family begin to go badly awry, his responsibilities threaten to overwhelm him. Funny, sad, quirky, original and - incidentally - a brilliant reworking of "Henry IV" part 1.

"One wet Friday evening, Professor Andrew Martin of Cambridge University solves the world's greatest mathematical riddle. Then he disappears. When he is found walking naked along the motorway, Professor Martin seems different. Besides the lack of clothes, he now finds normal life pointless. His loving wife and teenage son seem repulsive to him. In fact, he hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton. And he's a dog."--Back cover. "It's hardest to belong when you're closest to home ... One wet Friday evening, Professor Andrew Martin of Cambridge University solves the world's greatest mathematical riddle. Then he disappears. When he is found walking naked along the motorway, Professor Martin seems different. Besides the lack of clothes, he now finds normal life pointless. His loving wife and teenage son seem repulsive to him. In fact, he hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton. And he's a dog. Can a bit of Debussy and Emily Dickinson keep him from murder? Can the species which invented cheap white wine and peanut butter sandwiches be all that bad? And what is the warm feeling he gets when he looks into his wife's eyes?"--Publisher's description.

Settings: Victorian London; North Pole - Amelia Wishart is a lowly chimney sweep who despite her meager existence exudes the kind of hope providing thrust of Santa's sleigh. But when she is sent to the workhouse and her hope drains away, Santa is worried he may have to cancel Christmas if there is diminished hope to power his sleigh.

Brand success equals business success. A simple equation, but identifying those winning qualities is not easy. To achieve this goal, the author applies a range of criteria including financial success, longevity, technological advancement, new product development, work place revolution and mass communication. The result is a comprehensive, entertaining and illuminating collection. From Adidas to Zippo, we are guided through a gallery of some of the world's best-known names and given a rare insight into the secret of their success. It includes comments from brand managers, psychologists, academics and other experts.

Als Clara Radley na een feestje lastiggevallen wordt door een jongen, zorgt haar reactie ervoor dat het leven van de Radleys voorgoed verandert. Vanaf ca. 16 jaar.

"Like nearly one in five people, Matt Haig suffers from depression. Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt’s inspiring account of how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame the disease with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and his girlfriend (and now-wife), Andrea. And eventually, he learned to appreciate life all the more for it."

Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present. How to Stop Time is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.

"On a leafy street in the quiet village of Bishopthorpe there lives a very ordinary and averagely dysfunctional happy family. Peter Radley is the village doctor, and his wife Helen is part of the local book club. Their children, Clara and Rowan, may be experiencing all the hormonal anguish of being teenagers. . . but that's only a normal part of growing up. However, Peter and Helen have kept from the children a life-changing family secret. One night, when Clara finds herself driven to committing a bloodthirsty act of violence, her parents react with resignation rather than horror. Peter and Helen must now explain things to their children: why it is that their skin is so sensitive to sunlight, why they all find garlic so repulsive, why Clara's recent decision to go vegan has been so detrimental to her health ... and other disadvantages of being a family of abstaining vampires. Reeling from their parents' revelation, and with the police closing in, Clara and Rowan are stunned by the further discovery that they also have an uncle, a smooth-talking and decidedly active vampire who has been kept away from them all their lives. But when he swoops into the village to save the day, he unleashes a host of shadowy and even darker secrets that will bring the whole Radley family either to reconciliation and readjustment ... or to self-destruction."

"천년을 사는 남자, 톰 해저드. 그가 절대 해서는 안 되는 한 가지가 있다. 바로 '사랑에 빠지는 것'이다. 주인공 톰 해저드는 위험한 비밀을 지니고 있다. 겉보기엔 그저 평범한 40대 초반으로 보이지만, 성장 속도가 보통 사람보다 15배나 느린 희귀한 신체 조건 탓에 수세기를 넘게 생존해 왔다는 것. 그는 1581년에 태어났고, 여전히 살아 있다. 셰익스피어가 활약한 엘리자베스 시대의 영국에서부터 재즈가 흘러넘치던 1900년대 초의 파리, 스콧 피츠제럴드와 찰리 채플린이 살던 뉴욕을 거쳐 남태평양의 섬에 이르기까지 수많은 것을 지켜보아 온 톰은 이제 평범한 삶을 꿈꾸고 있다. 엄혹한 중세 시대, 톰의 어머니는 아들에게 늙지 않는 마법을 걸었다는 이유로 마녀로 몰려 물속에 던져졌다. 톰은 "살아남으라"는 어머니의 유언을 지키기 위해, 그리고 찾아야만 하는 단 한 사람을 위해 자신의 비밀을 감춰야만 한다. 과거의 공포가 마녀사냥이었다면, 현대의 공포는 톰을 실험체로 쓰려 하는 의료기관과 제약회사들. 때문에 그는 자신의 변하지 않는 외모를 주변인들에게 들키지 않기 위해 8년마다 계속 신분을 바꾸며 정체를 철저히 감춰 왔다. 그리고 21세기 현재, 그는 런던의 중고등학교에서 역사 교사로 일하며 학생들에게 태연하게 전쟁과 마녀사냥 등에 대해 가르치고 있다. 마치 자신과는 아무 상관없고 겪어 본 일도 아닌 것처럼. 그렇게 톰은 자신을 끈질기게 따라오며 괴롭히는 과거를 길들이려 노력한다. 하지만 평생을 떠돌아야 하는 그가 절대 해서는 안 되는 것이 있다면 바로 '사랑에 빠지는 일'이다.?사랑이란 감정에 몸을 맡기는 것이 얼마나 처참한 결과를 불러오는지, 톰은 이미 경험을 통해 알아 버렸다. 발표하는 작품마다 화제를 뿌려 온 매트 헤이그의 필력은 톰의 삶을 따라가는 내내 책을 덮지 못하게 하는 강력한 힘을 발휘한다. 평단의 찬사와 독자의 열렬한 호응을 이끌어낸 『시간을 멈추는 법』은 시대의 변화와 실수를 반복하는 인간의 본성, 평생에 걸친 숙제이자 물음인 '살아가는 방법'을 기상천외한 상상력으로 제시한 역작이다. 주인공이 사는 각각의 시대상을 촘촘히 묘사하고 당대의 유명 인사들과 엮어 신선한 에피소드를 만들어 내는 재치 발랄한 상상력은 이 책만이 선사하는 독특한 즐거움이다. 또한 [셜록], [닥터 스트레인지]의 베네딕트 컴버배치가 주연을 맡아 제작 중인 동명의 영화에 대한 기대감이 높아질 수밖에 없는 이유이기도 하다." -- ǂc Provided by publisher.

Eleven-year-old Nikolas nicknamed Christmas has received only one toy in his life: a doll carved out of a turnip. But he s happy with his turnip doll, because it came from his parents, who love him. Then one day his father goes missing, and Nikolas must travel to the North Pole to save him. Along the way, Nikolas befriends a surly reindeer, bests a troublesome troll, and discovers a hidden world of enchantment in the frozen village of Elfhelm. But the elves of Elfhelm have troubles of their own: Christmas spirit and goodwill are at an all-time low, and Nikolas may be the only person who can fix things if only he can reach his father before it s too late.

This is the first examination of the world's top 100 spectacular brand disasters. It's not just smaller, lesser-known companies that have launched dud brands. On the contrary, most of the world's global giants have launched new products that have flopped - spectacularly and at great cost. Brand Failures is a fascinating look at how such disasters occur. It describes those brands that set sail with the help of multi-million dollar advertising campaigns, only to sink without trace. In a highly readable and entertaining style, Matt Haig starts with classic examples from every era of branding and moves towards more recent brand failures. The book also has great practical value: each brand scenario includes a checklist of "lessons learnt", so providing "how not to" advice.

A ghost story with a twist—a suspenseful and poignantly funny update of HamletA triumph of originality and humor, this clever novel by British author Matt Haig gives us Hamlet redux with an unforgettable voice all his own. When eleven-year-old Philip Noble is confronted by the ghost of his recently deceased father and asked to avenge his death, the boy finds himself in a thorny dilemma. Revenge, after all, is a tricky business—especially when Philip is already distracted by his girlfriend, school bullies, self-doubt, and all the other challenges of adolescence. Viewing the adult world through the eyes of a young boy, The Dead Fathers Club is a brilliant, quirky take on a classic tale.

Having been careful to heed his Aunt Eda's warnings to not enter the dangerous Shadow Forest , twelve-year-old Samuel Blink finds himself in a difficult situation when Troll-Son runs away from his Shadow Forest home to come and live with Samuel, his human hero.