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Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is the author of The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer – books one and two in the Chaos Walking trilogy – for which he has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie m…
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Patrick Ness is the author of The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer – books one and two in the Chaos Walking trilogy – for which he has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie medal. Patrick has written two other books for adults and is a literary critic for the Guardian. He lives in London.
LATEST RELEASEPiper at the Gates of Dusk2026 COMING NEXTThe New World Book 22027★ 8.0/10 Anticipation THE AUTHOR’S WORLDS
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The New World Book 3 TBA ★ 8.0/10 Anticipation The New World #3 The New World Book 2 2027 ★ 8.0/10 Anticipation The New World #2 Piper at the Gates of Dusk 2026 The New World #1 Burn 2020 And the Ocean Was Our Sky 2018 
Release 2017 
The Stone House 2016 Class 
What She Does Next Will Astound You 2016 Class 
Joyride 2016 Class 
The Rest of Us Just Live Here 2015 ★ 7.5/10 4 ratings 
More Than This 2013 
The Crane Wife 2013 
A Monster Calls 2011 ★ 7.7/10 10 ratings 
Monsters of Men 2010 ★ 8.0/10 1 ratings Chaos Walking #3 
The Ask and the Answer 2009 ★ 7.0/10 1 ratings Chaos Walking #2 
The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008 ★ 8.0/10 2 ratings Chaos Walking #1 
Topics About Which I Know Nothing 2005 
The Crash of Hennington 2003