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Patrick Ness

  • 5 stars across 18 books
    Patrick Ness is the award-winning and bestselling author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, A Monster Calls, More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here and Release. He has won every major prize in children's fiction, including the Carnegie Medal twice. He has written the screenplay for the film of A Monster Calls and the BBC Doctor Who spin-off, Class. The first Chaos Walking film is slated for release in 2019. He lives in London.

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    7th May 2015

    A Monster Calls

    The bestselling novel and major film about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. ... More

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    5th June 2014

    The Knife of Never Letting Go

    A new edition of the award-winning first novel in the Chaos Walking trilogy, with a bonus short story, The New World. I... More

    (9 reviews)
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    27th August 2015

    The Rest of Us Just Live Here

    Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold and irreverent novel powerfully reminds us that there are many different ty... More

    (4 reviews)
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    5th September 2013

    More Than This

    From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the li... More

    (3 reviews)
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    5th June 2014

    The Ask and the Answer

    A new edition of the award-winning second novel in the Chaos Walking trilogy, with a bonus short story, The Wide, Wide ... More

    (3 reviews)
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    4th May 2017

    Release

    The most personal and tender novel yet from Patrick Ness, the twice Carnegie Medal-winning author of A Monster Cal... More

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    7th May 2020

    Burn

    In 1956 Sarah Dewhurst's father shocks her by hiring a dragon to work the farm. The dragon is a smaller blue rather than... More

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    3rd May 2010

    Monsters of Men

    "War," says the Mayor. "At last." Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. To... More

    (2 reviews)
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    6th September 2018

    And the Ocean Was Our Sky

    From the multi-award-winning author of A Monster Calls comes a haunting tale of power and obsession that turns t... More

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    23rd October 2014

    Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 Stories

    Twelve bestselling authors, twelve Doctors, twelve brilliant adventures in time and space for ALL Doctor Who fans! T... More

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    • Burn

      Burn

      by Mr.K

      'Faith is belief without proof.'

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      The book is amazing. Having read the series on repeat, it is still as thrilling as the first time. The boy goes through so many hardships, as of meeti...

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      The Rest of Us Just Live Here

      I really think this book should have a higher profile than it does - I think maybe the 'joke' of it is lost on some students, but if you have a good w...

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