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The international bestseller and masterpiece of science fiction in a new eye-catching package with sprayed edges

“Inventive, gut-wrenching, and all-consuming, this is an unforgettable coming-of-age reading experience.” —Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Coldwire

Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone’s thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. But in this town of men where privacy is impossible, there is a secret so awful that Todd, still a month shy of becoming a man himself, must run for his life from it. But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought? And what does it mean when you meet a girl whose thoughts are silent?

Return to the world of Chaos Walking with Piper at the Gates of Dusk, the first book in the New World trilogy, coming in spring 2026!

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.