A time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.
The Midnight Train
By Matt Haig
HB Fiction / 21 May 2026 / Canongate / £20
When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.
The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.
To see what kind of person you really were.
For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.
Before he gave it all away.
He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything…
A time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.
Matt will be touring on publication, with events in Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Chorleywood, Edinburgh, Hay on Wye, London, Newark, Oswestry, Salford, Sheffield and York.
The Midnight Library was an instant #1 on the Sunday Times and New York Times Bestsellers list, remaining in the UK top ten for 10 weeks, and has now sold over 11 million copies. A Top 10 Hardback Fiction Bestseller of 2020, voted Goodreads Best Fiction Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards and picked for BBC Two's Between the Covers Book Club with Sara Cox, the Richard & Judy Book Club and the Good Morning America Book Club.
Rights to The Midnight Train have sold around the globe – 25 territories and counting.
Selected praise for The Midnight Library
‘A beguiling read, filled with warmth and humour, and a vibrant celebration of the power of books to change lives’ - Sunday Times
‘A beautiful fable, an It's a Wonderful Life for the modern age – impossibly timely when we are all stuck in a world we wish could be different’- JODI PICOULT
‘A celebration of life's possibilities . . . A beautiful concept . . .Charming’ – Guardian
‘A rare and welcome light of hope and wisdom in the darkness’ - JOANNE HARRIS
'Absorbing . . . A vision of limitless possibility, of new roads taken, of new lives lived, of a whole different world available to us somehow, somewhere, might be exactly what's wanted in these troubled and troubling times' - New York Times
‘This book really makes you think all about our choices in life and that big question of “Where would I be if I had made a different choice?” It’s a book that definitely made me self-reflect.’ – MILLIE BOBBY BROWN
‘I can't describe how much his work means to me. So necessary...[Matt Haig is] the king of empathy.’ – JAMEELA JAMIL, actor and host of I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
Matt Haig writes both fiction and non-fiction. This includes the novels The Humans, How to Stop Time and The Midnight Library, which has been a number one Sunday Times bestseller and a number one New York Times bestseller. He has also written several children’s books including A Boy Called Christmas, which became a major feature film. His non-fiction works include Reasons to Stay Alive, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, and The Comfort Book. His most recent fiction, The Life Impossible, was a Sunday Times and a New York Times bestseller. His work has been translated into over fifty languages.
Matt is available for interviews, features and events. Please contact:
Emma Finnigan - emma@emmafinniganpr.co.uk / 07870 210468
or Christian Lewis - christianlewisPR@outlook.com / 07919 324890