Matt Haig

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad”. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Note to self

Just wait.

Happy Black Friday Season

Here it is!!! The cover for my new novel The Midnight Train. I put two very different covers on Instagram, both by the fantastic @nathalielees and the designer @rafiromaya at @canongatebooks Then via stories and posts we had 49,700 VOTES!!! And this won. Except it wasn’t exactly this one. Because many of you had comments. There were in fact 22,100 comments. Some of you thought the hand should be more clearly touching the glass, some thought the windows didn’t look like windows so even those people who voted for the steam train cover were listened to. And the back cover is going to have some more classic Venetian touches. Because this is a time-travelling love story and some of it is set in Venice. This also has a visual echo of The Midnight Library too. I have never been more excited about anything I have written. And even though I told you this was for the UK cover it is also going to be used as the art for the Canadian, Australasian, Dutch, German and Italian editions. So your choice was endorsed by @harpercollinsca, @allenandunwin, @lebowskipublishers and @edizioni_eo too. There is also going to be a deluxe exclusive signed @waterstones edition which looks great. It will be out on 21 May in UK and Netherlands and 26 May in the US, Canada, and Down Under. Other places a bit later. Link in bio for pre-orders. I love it. What do you think?