The Midnight Library

The touching, funny and heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Stop Time and Reasons to Stay Alive.

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON READERS' MOST LOVED BOOK OF 2021 WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION 'BEAUTIFUL' Jodi Picoult, 'UPLIFTING' i, 'BRILLIANT' Daily Mail, 'AMAZING' Joanna Cannon, 'ABSORBING' New York Times, 'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Independent Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?

When we are fast asleep in bed, the Midnight Library opens its doors to all the night-time animals. Inside the library the little librarian and her three assistant owls help each and every animal to find the perfect book. But with a noisy squirrel band, an upset wolf and a slow-reading tortoise to help, they could all be in for a very busy night . . . A beautiful, big-hearted book about the joy of reading and the importance of libraries. Stylishly designed and produced, this is the perfect gift for anyone of any age that simply loves books.

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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library What if you had the chance to live out every version of your life that was ever possible? Would you still be wishing that you could have done things differently? Or would you be grateful for the turns you’ve taken in your root life? In the fictional story The Midnight Library (2020), Nora Seed, a woman in her mid-thirties, experiences all the alternate paths which she had left behind in favor of others. What if she had never given up swimming? Would she have liked her life better as a professional swimmer? What if she had been a glaciologist instead of a student of philosophy? What if she had stayed with her ex-fiancé? After experiencing what could have been, Nora realized one simple truth: the only life she could ever be satisfied with living was hers, and all the choices she once classified as regrets were instead blessings in disguise.

Everyone enjoys a good horror film, don't they? One night Alex, Ben, Richard and Jason decide to watch 'The Caretaker', a scary film about a murderous school caretaker who takes his brutal revenge on the pupils. But when the boys all go home, leaving Alex to clear up, the DVD mysteriously won't turn off and a strange heavy breathing begins to follow Alex around the house. It seems that horror is no longer confined to the world of films ...

Annabel is the school sports star with dreams of running on the National Junior Squad for athletics. Her coach, Mr McNabb, is preparing her for the qualifiers and suggests that she imagine a runner that only she can see, as a way of blocking out the threat of her real opponents. But the harder she practises and the faster she runs, the deeper her fixation on beating her imaginary opponent becomes. It gets to the point where her obsession threatens more than her performance in the race ...

Rachael Worthy has always dreamt of becoming a journalist and is thrilled when her school decides to start a newspaper. She doesn't have access to the internet at home so she finds an internet cafe where she can write and submit her articles. But the computer she uses seems to have it's own journalistic ideas and Rachael's articles become much more scandalous than she first anticipated ...

Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing. Covering fiction, poetry, and drama from the late Middle Ages to the present, it runs the gamut of British and American literature, as well as examining a range of fiction in other languages--from Rabelais and Cervantes to modern and contemporary French, Italian, Japanese, and Russian writing. While the tropes of the complex catalogue and the bibliomaniacal reader persist throughout the centuries, libraries also emerge as societal battle-sites where issues of personality, gender, cultural power, and national identity are contested repeatedly and often in surprising ways. As well as examining how libraries were deployed in their work by canonical authors from Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Swift to Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Jorge Luis Borges, the volume also examines in detail the haunted libraries of Margaret Oliphant and M. R. James, and a range of much less familiar historic and contemporary authors. Alert to the depiction of librarians as well as of book-rooms and institutional readers, this book will inform, entertain, and delight. At a time when traditional libraries are under pressure, Libraries in Literature shows the power of their lasting fascination.

Jake, Oliver and Megan are too young to go to the over-16s disco and look too young to attempt to sneak in! So they decide to visit the local fair instead. They come across a fortune-teller who not only predicts their futures but grants wishes. Jake thinks it's all a big joke but when it is his turn, he makes a wish he just might regret for the rest of his life ...

When Alfie goes to stay at his Granny Dorry's for the weekend he thinks it's going to be a dull and miserable time - she doesn't even have a television that can connect to a PlayStation! But despite his best efforts to be bored, Alfie starts painting with Granny and actually starts to enjoy himself. That is until the picture of the abbey and its mysterious hooded figure begins to come to life in his dreams ...

On a school trip to the 'American Colonies' theme park, Emma, Abby, Tyler and Matthew come across the legend of the witch children. Despite warnings from the curator, Abby dances a jig on the graves of the witch children for the amusement of her friends, believing the legend to be no more than a made-up story. But she soon changes her mind when strange things begin to happen. It seems revenge can come from beyond the grave after all ...

Liam much prefers spending time at school then going home to see his dad and he often volunteers to stay on after school to do work. During an after-hours experiment Liam accidentally spills acid in his eye and has to be rushed to hospital for an emergency cornea transplant. With his new eye, Liam is able to see properly again but he is haunted by shadows and nightmares of being chased and trapped in an alleyway. He finds out his donor was a man called Adam Webb but what he got to do with the visions and how does Liam's dad fit into it?

Becky loves to shop and especially enjoys browsing in the very expensive and exclusive boutique in the arcade owned by the wonderful but stuck-up designer, Sadie. When an exquisite corset is put in the window Becky is dying to try it on but it has been made especially for Daisy, a girl in her class, for the charity fashion show and Sadie won't let anyone else try it on. But when Daisy allows Becky to try it on Sadie becomes strangely aggressive and when her miniature taylor's dummy goes missing, the designer's panic is unleashed. How far has Sadie gone to produce faltless designs and is there more at stake for Becky than just the perfect fit?

On a school trip to the town's infamously awful waxwork's museum Nick, Harry, Lucy and Anna decide to break away from the group and go off exploring themselves. They enjoy poking fun at the horrific waxworks who look nothing like their famous living counterparts but on closer inspection things are not what they appear to be. The four friends know that waxworks can't move or talk or look at you ... or can they?

When Joe Wright finds a wallet lying unclaimed on the ground, bursting at the seams with money it feels like he's hit the jackpot. Deciding to keep it, rather than hand it in to the police, Joe can finally afford to buy the computer games he's always wanted and can take the prettiest girl in school out for dinner. But when it emerges that the wallet belonged to the notorious but deceased bank robber, Mitchell Murray, everything Joe has bought suddenly seems cursed ...

Excitement strikes Martina and Sam's youth club when they decide to have an 'Ancient South American Myths' float in the upcoming street party. Martina is chosen to be Goddess of the Moon and her other friend, Adam, is to be God of Death. Everyone is really thrilled and working hard on decorating the float and making costumes when Adam announces that he has bought a genuine God of Death mask online to complete his look. The mask is terrifying but Adam insists on wearing it and starts to become very aggressive towards everyone else. As his mood becomes more sinister, Martina worries if Adam is taking his role, as God of Death, a little too seriously ...