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Patrick Ness

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Patrick Ness, is an award-winning novelist. He has lived in London since 1999 and is the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy: The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men. He won the 2012 Carnegie Medal for A Monster Calls

May 2021

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    Books that made me
    Patrick Ness: ‘Terry Pratchett makes you feel seen and forgiven’

    The author celebrates the most perfect sentence by Toni Morrison and his struggles with Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch

July 2017

  • Illustration by Giacomo Bagnara.

    Best holiday reads 2017, picked by writers – part two

    What to pack along with the aftersun and flipflops? From novels about gay footballers and updated Greek classics to biographies and poetry, our guest critics offer their holiday must-reads

March 2013

  • Patrick Ness

    Twitter fiction
    Twitter fiction: Patrick Ness

    The award-winning novelist takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer

October 2012

  • A Wisconsin farm

    Carry the One by Carol Anshaw – review

    Patrick Ness is drawn into an engrossing story of a family facing tragedy

August 2012

  • Anti-Censorship arts poster

    Edinburgh World Writers' Conference
    Patrick Ness: censorship in the internet age

    Edinburgh World Writers' Conference: Patrick Ness argues that in 2012, the censorship we need to beware of is the subtle variety we impose on ourselves

June 2012

  • Aidan Chambers

    Dying to Know You by Aidan Chambers - review

  • teenagers

    double quotation markTeenagers deserve better

    Patrick Ness
  • Illustration from A Monster Calls

    Children's books
    How we made A Monster Calls

  • Final of the women's cycling sprint in Beijing, 2008

    Gold by Chris Cleave - review

March 2012

  • Justin Torres

    We the Animals by Justin Torres – review

  • The Decemberists Perform At Manchester Academy

    Wildwood by Colin Meloy – review

February 2012

  • Gears of Pocket Watch

    Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway – review

    Nick Harkaway's joyfully reckless invention is as intricate as clockwork. By Patrick Ness

January 2012

October 2011

  • Colson Whitehead

    Zone One by Colson Whitehead – review

    Patrick Ness urges both literary partisans and zombie buffs to overcome their prejudices

August 2011

  • Paolo Bacigalupi

    Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi – review

    Patrick Ness on a vivid dystopian world

July 2011

  • Martina Navratilova 1990

    My hero
    My hero: Martina Navratilova

    Patrick Ness: 'She has that rare, exceedingly admirable quality of seeming incapable of pretending to be anything she's not'

June 2011

  • path through a forest

    The Great Night by Chris Adrian - review

    Patrick Ness introduces the most magical novelist you've never heard of

May 2011

  • Children's books
    The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens – review

    Patrick Ness on a timeslip fantasy that never quite delivers its promised magic

April 2011

  • The Kissing Game by Aidan Chambers - review

    Patrick Ness enjoys a dark collection of Aidan Chambers's tales of teenage life

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