Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig The follow-up to the number one Sunday Times bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The world is messing with our minds.Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index.- How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad?- How do we stay human in a technological world?- How do we feel happy when we are encouraged to be anxious?After experiencing years of anxiety and panic attacks, these questions became urgent matters of life and death for Matt Haig. And he began to look for the link between what he felt and the world around him.Notes on a Nervous Planet is a personal and vital look at how to feel happy, human and whole in the 21st century. Notes The follow-up to the number one Sunday Times bestseller Reasons To Stay Alive scrutinises the soaring stress and anxiety of the status quo, from the embattled politics to the health panics - all of which were deeply felt on the authors part, causing him to conduct this exploration of how to find happiness and peace of mind in the chaos. Author Biography Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into over forty languages.@matthaig1 | matthaig.com Review Witty, honest and engaging . . . A worthy successor to Reasons to Stay Alive * * Sunday Times * * An honest and human guide to coping with the modern world . . . Notes on a Nervous Planet is generous, sensible and timely. Reading it will probably be good for your mental health. Especially if you leave your smartphone in another room . . . Thought-provoking * * Guardian * * Thought-provoking . . . [Haigs] hard-won wisdom asks us to think about how we can live in the present - and in so doing, he creates a wonderfully perceptive chronicle of life in the always-on social media age. A real-world guide to mindfulness * * Observer * * Beautiful, honest and wise -- FEARNE COTTON Notes on a Nervous Planet is a fascinating look at the link between anxiety and the world we live in . . . [Haig is] one of our warmest, wittiest and wisest writers * * Mail on Sunday * * Genius -- RUBY WAX Haigs bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive was an engaging self-help memoir which mined personal trauma for valuable life lessons. This follow-up is a rag-bag of personal experience, thoughts and feelings . . . some thought-provoking, some pertinent and important . . . Hes a smart operator who knows his readership and genuinely wants to help them . . . I reached the last page admiring the authors inventive energy and insight -- Bel Mooney * * Daily Mail * * Take Notes on a Nervous Planet twice daily, with or without food. The book is crammed with wisdom, insight, love and wit -- STEPHEN FRY A primer for how to live in the present moment. This book will find grateful readers everywhere -- NIGELLA LAWSON Matt Haig has written really something rather special here - the definitive user manual for your own head. Its a self-help book that - unusually for the genre - talks in sensible, practical terms not in vague aphorisms and allegories. Recommended for anyone whos ever wobbled, and thats all of us -- ADAM KAY Prizes Short-listed for Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2018 (UK) Review Text Witty, honest and engaging . . . A worthy successor to Reasons to Stay Alive Promotional "Headline" The follow-up to the number one Sunday Times bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive Details ISBN1786892677 Author Matt Haig Pages 320 Publisher Canongate Books Ltd Year 2018 ISBN-10 1786892677 ISBN-13 9781786892676 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2018-07-05 Imprint Canongate Books Ltd Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Media Book DEWEY 158 Language English Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2018-07-05 AU Release Date 2018-07-05 NZ Release Date 2018-07-05 Illustrations No We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:123379366;

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