{"isbn": "9781805300175", "book": {"idtitle": 6301981, "isbn": "9781805300175", "family_id": null, "title": "Humans", "author": "Matt Haig", "shorttitle": "Humans", "il1": "310", "il2": "865", "il3": "AP1", "il5": "A16", "publisher": null, "imprint": "AP2", "series": "", "pubdate": "2023-10-10", "nz_pubdate": null, "instore_date": "2023-10-10", "coverurl": "Y", "format": "B", "height": 198, "width": 129, "page_extent": 320, "retail_price_aus": "24.99", "retail_price_nz": "27.99", "subtitle": null, "stock_status_code": "B", "pages": null, "kids_readership_from": null, "kids_readership_to": null, "edition": null, "ins_pp": null, "num_in_series": null, "previous_title": null, "nonsortprefix": "The", "editor": null, "locked": null, "stock_on_order": 272, "wordcount": null, "illustrator": null, "title_notes": null, "quote_file": null, "primary_book_f": null, "full_format_description": null, "created": "2022-09-26T21:32:03+10:00", "updated": "2026-05-06T23:52:04+10:00", "weight": 0, "depth": 20, "stock_status_change_date": "2026-04-29", "edition_reference_code": null, "packagetype": "PB", "publisher_book": null, "editor_sup": null, "secondary_book": [], "retail_price_uk": 0.0}, "awards": [], "categories": {"id_title_category": 442725, "isbn": "9781805300175", "cat_type": "BIC1", "value": "FA", "priority": 4, "category": "BIC"}, "bic1": {"idmd_bic_mappings": 346, "code": "FA", "description": "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)", "marketing_main_code": "F", "marketing_main_description": "Fiction", "marketing_sub_code": "F", "marketing_sub_description": "Popular Fiction", "back_cover_cat": "Fiction", "type_mapping": "BIC"}, "imprint": {"idimprint": "AP2", "description": "Canongate PBS", "related_il3": "AP1", "screen_id": 4, "url_logo": "https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/dimo.allenunwin.com/logos/Canongate.png", "manual_isbn": false, "hide_from_user": false, "publisher_id": 44, "visiblity": 1}, "blurb": {"idblurbs": 3484927, "idtitle": 6301981, "isbn": "9781805300175", "short_description": "", "cover_blurb": "THERE'S NO PLANET LIKE HOME<div><br></div><div>After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, and he's a dog. Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mind about the human race . . . ?</div>", "product_description": "", "author_bio": "Matt Haig has written a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction. This includes the novels The Humans, How to Stop Time and The Midnight Library, several children's books and most recently the self-help book The Comfort Book.@matthaig1 | @mattzhaig | matthaig.com", "table_of_contents": "", "sales_points": "The Humans has sold over 150,000 copies (TCM) in the UK alone. Brilliantly reviewed on original publication, and now beautifully repackaged into a brand new series look, it will appeal to fans of popular fiction writers such as Mark Haddon, Gail Honeyman and Patrick Ness<div><br><div>Haig's latest novel, <i>The Midnight Library</i> was an instant number one <i>Sunday Times</i> and <i>New York Times</i> bestseller in hardback, was in the UK top ten for 52 weeks, and has now sold over 2 million copies. A Top 10 Hardback Fiction Bestseller of 2020, voted Goodreads Best Fiction Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards and picked for BBC Two's Between the Covers Book Club with Sara Cox and the Good Morning America Book Club</div></div>", "quotes": "'Matt Haig's hilarious novel puts our species on the spot' - Guardian<br><br>'A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel. Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger, Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will, love, marriage, logic, immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy' - The Times<br><br>'Great idea, great plot and superb comedy, especially from the alien's puzzled analyses of primitive human ways' - Daily Mail<br><br>'Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus' - Guardian<br><br>'A novel with an enormous heart, infused with a sense of gratitude for everything that makes us who we are' - Charlotte Heathcote<br><br>'' -", "key_note_blurb": "'Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus' Guardian", "keywords": "alien protagonist; supernatural; meaning of life; happiness; humanity; The Midnight Library; uplifting; family; love; loss; fish out of water; How to Stop Time; Reasons to Stay Alive", "acq_notes": "", "cover_strapline": null}, "format": {"format_id": "B", "description": "B", "screen_id": null}, "package": {"idpackagetype": "PB", "description": "PAPERBACK", "type": "", "onix_product_form_code": "BC", "onix_product_form_detail_code": null}, "series_description": null, "book_cover": "https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/assets.allenandunwin.com/images/medium/9781805300175.jpg", "links": [], "stock_availability_date": "2026-05-14", "excluded": false, "il3_desc": "A&U Canongate"}