Canongate Books Matt Haig Collection 3 Books Set

This three-book set brings together three works by Matt Haig: The Life Impossible, Notes on a Nervous Planet and The Humans. Spanning fiction and non-fiction, the collection moves from a mystery on a Mediterranean island to reflections on modern life, and a darkly comic story set in Cambridge.

Across the set, the writing ranges from a search for answers in Ibiza, to an examination of how sleep, news and social media can affect us, and a tale in which a university professor finds himself profoundly out of step with the people closest to him. Each book offers a distinct premise, presented here as a single collection.

Included titles

• The Life Impossible
• Notes on a Nervous Planet
• The Humans

Key details

• Three-book collection by Matt Haig
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Includes two novels and one non-fiction title
• Set contains The Life Impossible, Notes on a Nervous Planet and The Humans

Synopses

The Life Impossible

Retired maths teacher Grace Winters inherits a run-down house on a Mediterranean island from a long-lost friend. Travelling to Ibiza with a one-way ticket and no plan, she searches for answers about her friend’s life and how it ended. What she discovers is stranger than she expected.

Notes on a Nervous Planet

Exploring how the modern world can affect our minds, this book looks at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play. Matt Haig encourages readers to question the habits of the digital age and consider how they spend their time.

The Humans

After an incident on a wet Friday night in Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is found walking naked through the streets and no longer feels like himself. Food and clothes unsettle him, and even his wife and teenage son repel him. Feeling lost among an alien species, he dislikes everyone on the planet except Newton, a dog.