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 40 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, as well as winning the Olivier Award for the stage adaptation of A Monster Calls. He created and wrote the eight-part BBC Doctor Who spinoff Class and as a screenwriter has written for Fox, Lionsgate, Apple, Warner Brothers and Entertainment One. The first book in his new middle grade series, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody, was published by Walker in September 2024 and sees Patrick nominated for the Carnegie a third time. The second book in the series, The Hat of Great Importance was published in June 2025. Piper at the Gates of Dusk, the first in Patrick’s new Chaos Walking trilogy, will be published in April 2026.