The Midnight Train and its life-changing journey:

Matt Haig in conversation with Donna Ashworth

International best-selling author Matt Haig follows up his multi-million copy bestseller The Midnight Library with a new story set in the same world.

The Midnight Train is a moving tale of time-travel, love, and adventure, which asks: which of your past mistakes would you choose to resolve if given the chance?

Matt Haig is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The Midnight Library, The Life Impossible, How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. His work has been translated into over fifty languages.

The Midnight Library was an instant bestseller and winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction. It has become a worldwide phenomenon and sold over ten million copies worldwide spending 52 weeks in the New York Times bestseller list. The audiobook is read by Carey Mulligan.

Scottish poet Donna Ashworth is the UK’s best-selling living poet with over 2,000,000 million followers. Her poems became popular during the pandemic when she decided to self-publish a book to mark the moment in history. She quickly self-published two more collections with much success. Eight books followed in the next few years, each a bestseller, and Donna rose to claim her place as Britain’s bestselling poet. Her success is credited with helping make 2023 one of the biggest years ever for UK poetry sales. In 2024 and 2025 Donna held one of the UK’s top five bestselling non-fiction titles and in fact was the UK’s bestselling non-fiction female author. Stand out hits are the re-release of To The Women and Wild Hope. In an exciting move for 2026 Donna joined global publishing giants Hay House which she describes as a ‘full circle moment’ having loved the founder Louise Hay for many years. Her first book with Hay is a unique and exciting new concept for the author combing her beloved poetry with visualisations, meditations, author-drawn illustrations, affirmations, life-stories, perspective-shifting takeaways and prose to guide the reader to a life lived more freely with focus on the beauty that surrounds us – The Art of being Easily Pleased. Donna’s main focus is community, connection, and using poetry to spread comfort and hope.

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