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Patrick Ness


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in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, The United States
October 17, 1971

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Patrick Ness, an award-winning novelist, has written for Radio 4 and The Sunday Telegraph and is a literary critic for The Guardian. He has written many books, including the Chaos Walking Trilogy, The Crash of Hennington, Topics About Which I Know Nothing, and A Monster Calls.

He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children’s Book Award. Born in Virginia, he currently lives in London.

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Piper at the Gates of Dusk – cover reveal

Something is coming…

Global bestselling author Patrick Ness returns to the iconic world of Chaos Walking with Piper at the Gates of Dusk.

Something has been spotted in the night sky. Something that’s bringing back dreams of Noise, dreams of terror. Brothers Ben and Max have never really gotten along, but now they will have to come together against an unspeakable enemy. Fortunately, they know

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Average rating: 4.1 · 904,341 ratings · 116,501 reviews · 58 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Monster Calls

4.35 avg rating — 289,102 ratings — published 2011 — 88 editions
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The Knife of Never Letting ...

3.98 avg rating — 203,861 ratings — published 2008
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The Ask and the Answer (Cha...

4.18 avg rating — 101,740 ratings — published 2009 — 121 editions
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Monsters of Men (Chaos Walk...

4.22 avg rating — 90,449 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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More Than This

3.94 avg rating — 70,017 ratings — published 2013 — 64 editions
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The Rest of Us Just Live Here

3.68 avg rating — 63,216 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions
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Release

3.64 avg rating — 19,341 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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The New World (Chaos Walkin...

3.87 avg rating — 12,035 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions
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Burn

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And the Ocean Was Our Sky

3.61 avg rating — 8,790 ratings — published 2018 — 30 editions
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“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?
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