Matt Haig's most recent book, Notes on a Nervous Planet, is about how to stay human and sane in the ever more hectic age in which we live. In the first ever episode of Read Like a Writer, he talks mental health, City Books (his local independent bookshop in Brighton), and some of his own favourite books with Anna Fielding. Notes on a Nervous Planet is published by Canongate - order your copy from a UK independent bookshop here. Books discussed this episode:
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Boy by Roald Dahl
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