Patrick Ness Books

About Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy, as well as Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody and it sequel, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody: The Hat of Great Importance. He wrote the #1 New York Times bestseller A Monster Calls (inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd), which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was made into a major motion picture for which he wrote the screenplay. He is also the author of More Than This, Release, Different for Boys, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and Burn. His many accolades include two Carnegie Medals, an Olivier Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the BookTrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children's Book Award. Patrick Ness lives in Los Angeles and London.