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    • Different for Boys – upcoming events

      Different for Boys – upcoming events

      POSTED ON 03.02.2023

      Patrick is touring the UK to celebrate the release of Different for Boys, illustrated by Tea Bendix. Patrick will be visiting London, Liverpool and Edinburgh in March 2023. Tuesday 7th March – Edinburgh Wednesday 8th March – Liverpool Thursday 9th March – continued…

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    • Chaos Walking movie

      Chaos Walking movie

      POSTED ON 23.03.2021

      Chaos Walking, based on The Knife of Never Letting Go, will be available for premium rental at home on all digital platforms in the UK from 2nd April, and available in cinemas as soon as they open. Watch the trailer here:

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    • Burn – available now

      Burn – available now

      POSTED ON 11.05.2020

      Burn, an all-consuming story of revenge, redemption and dragons, is available now! “Wonderful and mind-blowing and exhilarating and heart-stopping. What a storyteller! I loved it!” Russell T Davies “A summer blockbuster of a novel: exciting, clever and moving. Somehow, Ness continued…

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    • New Book: BURN

      New Book: BURN

      POSTED ON 18.10.2019

      New book announcement and cover reveal! An all-consuming story of revenge, redemption and dragons from the twice Carnegie Medal-winner Patrick Ness. In 1956 Sarah Dewhurst’s father shocks her by hiring a dragon to work the farm. The dragon is a continued…

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    • A Monster Calls on tour!

      A Monster Calls on tour!

      POSTED ON 07.06.2019

      Following on from the Olivier Award winning production of A Monster Calls at The Old Vic, the play is now going on tour! Click here to find out more and order your tickets. The tour includes performances in: Chichester Festival continued…

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    • New Book Announcement!!

      New Book Announcement!!

      POSTED ON 08.12.2017

      EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!! I am thrilled to say that my new novel is called “And The Ocean Was Our Sky”, will be lavishly illustrated by the brilliant Rovina Cai (she drew the eye in the picture), and will be out simultaneously continued…

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    • A Monster Calls on the West End Stage!

      A Monster Calls on the West End Stage!

      POSTED ON 08.11.2017

      Amazing news!  The Old Vic in London is producing a stage version of A Monster Calls, directed by the amazing Sally Cookson, to premiere next summer.  You can already buy tickets here!  It’ll have it’s opening tryout at the Bristol continued…

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    • Hello!

      Hello!

      POSTED ON 17.10.2017

      I have so badly ignored this site.  I’ll really try harder, I promise.  Ugh, social media though, huh?  THE ADDICTION TO IT IS INSANE!!  I check it compulsively, even when I don’t want to, even (especially) when I’ve got work continued…

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    • US tour for Release (and Chaos Walking starts filming…)

      US tour for Release (and Chaos Walking starts filming…)

      POSTED ON 16.08.2017

      Hello!  If you’re in America, I’ve just put up dates for my US book tour for Release in the Events section.  Come along!  All free!  I’ll be in New York, Philadelphia, DC/Chevy Chase, Chicago, Austin and Seattle in September.  A continued…

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    • UK and US covers for Release!

      UK and US covers for Release!

      POSTED ON 10.02.2017

      The UK and US covers for Release have been revealed!  The UK cover is the pathway one and is out in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Denmark in May, and the railway one is the US cover and continued…

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