The Mountains of Instead

Echo Boy
Matt Haig
Random House 2014

Space year 2115 - the future! Travel the globe and beyond in seconds, live forever thanks to insatiable advancements in medical science and, if you like, never leave the safety of your home again whilst living a better virtual life on-line!  I know, what's not …

Both Kevin and Matt are newly recognised authors at this year’s festival – Kevin, breaking ground with his debut novel The Fields and Matt finally finding the acceptance his work deserves with The Humans (and we all know I loved The Humans!).  Both men are personable and self-deprecating in equal m…

The Humans Matt Haig Canongate 2013
Dr Andrew Martin of Cambridge University is a mathematician. A pretty good one by all accounts. And on one, not particularly special day, he solves a mathematical problem almost as old as mathematics. And promptly disappears. You see, there are folks elsewhere in th…