Cover of How to Stop Time: The Illustrated Edition

How to Stop Time: The Illustrated Edition

Written by Matt Haig

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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life.

Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he'd never witnessed them first-hand. He can try to tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom must not do is fall in love.

How to Stop Time is a wild and bittersweet story about losing and finding yourself, about the certainty of change and about the lifetimes it can take to really learn how to live. This special Illustrated Edition features over fifty enchanting line drawings by the award-winning artist Chris Riddell.

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Goldsboro Books

Hardback · Canongate · First edition · First printing

Limited Edition

ISBN 9781786893178

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£59.99Limited to 500 copies
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First seen· Out of stock · £59.9916 Apr 2026

Last confirmed 12 Jul 2026

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