meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Matt Haig

Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Bauer Media

Arts, Books

4.9994 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Matt Haig pops in to chat about his new books: Evie and the Animals and The Truth Pixie. His children’s book A Boy Called Christmas was a runaway hit and is translated in over 25 languages. It is being made into a film by Studio Canal and The Guardian called it an ‘instant classic’. His children’s novels have won the Smarties Gold Medal, the Blue Peter Book of the Year, been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal three times. His memoir Reasons to Stay Alive was a number one bestseller, staying in the British top ten for 46 weeks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

All right Matt. Hello Simon. Did you know that if you need to hire you need indeed?

0:06.6

Now I think you've mentioned this before but tell me more.

0:09.7

Indeed is the matching and hiring platform with over 350 million global monthly visitors

0:16.5

according to Indeed Data.

0:18.4

Yes, that sounds pretty good to me.

0:20.0

According to our friends here, one of the things they love about, indeed, is that it makes hiring so easy because everything is in one place.

0:28.0

But is it a quick process? It is very fast, indeed's matching engine is constantly learning from your preferences

0:34.4

leveraging over 140 million qualifications and preferences every day so the more you

0:40.6

use indeed the better it gets.

0:42.8

Listen us to this podcast will get a 100 pound sponsored job credit to help get your jobs more visibility.

0:49.0

Just go to indeed.com slash BOTY.

0:52.2

That's indeed dot com.com slash BOT Y terms and conditions apply. Need to hire. You need

0:58.9

indeed. Hello and welcome it's another podcast from your friends at Books of the Year.

1:09.8

It's just me, well there's obviously authors and stuff, but Matt, he's read all the books, so he claims,

1:20.0

but then something's come up. It's one of those. Yeah, I know problems at work. There's a horse that's ill or something.

1:29.0

I don't know what it is. But he sends his apologies. I mean, it's a little bit annoying to be perfectly

1:34.4

honest but anyway so so Matt's not here but it doesn't matter it absolutely doesn't

1:39.0

matter because we have another Matt Haig who's going to be here talking about his new book in just a moment.

1:44.1

Anyway you might like to know that we've launched a new thing and it's a bit like

1:47.9

Jack andori. It's one for our older listeners. It's called Pick Any Page, right, where each week the

1:55.8

authors we have on this podcast pick a page from their new book and we film them

2:01.4

reading it so that you can get a taster for the book and you can see what they look like because all authors are gorgeous.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bauer Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bauer Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.