Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is the multi-award-winning author of books for adults, young adults and children. A Monster Calls, inspired by an idea by the late Siobhan Dowd and which Patrick also adapted for the screen (2016, starring Sigourney Weaver, Liam Neeson and Felicity Jones), is published in forty languages. An adaptation of the first in his Chaos Walking trilogy – starring Tom Holland (Spiderman) and Daisy Ridley (Star Wars) – was released in 2021. Patrick has won every major prize in children’s fiction, including the Carnegie Medal twice. He created and wrote the 8-part BBC Doctor Who spinoff Class and as a screenwriter has written for Fox, Lionsgate, Apple, Warner Brothers and Entertainment One. Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody, is being published by Walker this September 2024.
His new middle grade series, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody, is being published by Walker this September 2024 with a sequel to follow soon!
