Matt Haig Collection 3 Books Set: How to Stop Time, The Humans, The Radleys - Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set
How to Stop Time
The Humans
The Radleys

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789123757855
Publisher: Canongate Books
Age Range: Adult (18+)

Overview
This Matt Haig collection gathers three of the author's most inventive novels in one paperback set: How to Stop Time, The Humans, and The Radleys. Each book takes a fantastical premise—a man who ages in slow motion, an alien inhabiting a human body, a family hiding a vampiric secret—and grounds it in warm, witty, deeply human storytelling. Haig blends speculative concepts with sharp emotional insight, and this set showcases that range beautifully. It's a satisfying introduction for new readers and a welcome addition for longtime fans discovering these three stories together.

About the Books
How to Stop Time follows Tom Hazard, a man who ages at a fraction of the normal rate and has quietly witnessed centuries of history while trying to live an ordinary life as a present-day history teacher who must reinvent himself every few years to avoid suspicion. Haig moves between past and present with confidence, using Tom's impossibly long life to explore memory, loss, and the risk of loving someone when you know you may outlive them. The novel became one of Haig's most widely read works and was later adapted into a feature film. The Humans takes a different angle on similar questions of identity and connection. Told from the perspective of an alien who takes over a Cambridge mathematics professor's body, the novel uses fish-out-of-water humor to examine the strange rituals of human life—family dinners, marriage, small talk, grief—until the alien's clinical detachment gradually softens into something like affection for the species it was sent to study. The Radleys, an earlier Haig novel, imagines a seemingly unremarkable English family who are, in fact, vampires living under strict self-imposed abstinence. When a violent incident forces the family's secret into the open, long-buried tensions between control and instinct rise to the surface. Together, the three novels reveal Haig's range across speculative premises and character-driven suspense, sharing his signature warmth and emotional clarity.

Key Benefits

• Three acclaimed novels by Matt Haig in one brand-new paperback set
• Blends speculative ideas—time, aliens, vampires—with real emotional depth
• Great for readers who enjoy character-driven, thought-provoking fiction
• Includes How to Stop Time, source material for the feature film
• Compact paperback format, easy to gift and shelve

Book-by-Book Guide
How to Stop Time — Tom Hazard's centuries-long life collides with the risks of loving someone in the present day.
The Humans — An alien inhabiting a mathematician's body discovers the strange beauty of being human.
The Radleys — A quietly vampiric family unravels once their hidden instincts break free.

About the Author
Matt Haig is a British author known for blending speculative ideas with emotional honesty across both fiction and nonfiction. Born in 1975, he has built a career writing novels that explore mental health, identity, and what it means to live a meaningful life, often through inventive, high-concept premises like time-slowed immortality, alien visitors, and secretive vampire families. He has written acclaimed books for both adults and children, and several have been adapted for film and television. Haig's warm, conversational style has made his work widely read by readers seeking fiction that is thoughtful as well as genuinely entertaining.

Why You'll Love This Collection
Three distinct worlds, one unmistakable voice—this collection is perfect for birthday gifts, holiday reading, book club picks, or building a well-rounded fiction shelf. Whether you're discovering Matt Haig for the first time or completing your collection, these brand-new paperbacks deliver wit, heart, and imagination in equal measure cover to cover.

Please Note: This is the UK edition with the ISBN as listed; the cover may vary slightly from the image shown.