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Patrick Ness


Born
in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, The United States
October 17, 1971

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Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy


Patrick Ness, an award-winning novelist, has written for Radio 4 and The Sunday Telegraph and is a literary critic for The Guardian. He has written many books, including the Chaos Walking Trilogy, The Crash of Hennington, Topics About Which I Know Nothing, and A Monster Calls.

He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children’s Book Award. Born in Virginia, he currently lives in London.

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We have been notified that scammers have been impersonating Patrick on Discord and possibly other channels, reaching out to actors and other users, with the offer of voice work. This is not Patrick and is a scam. Please report the messages and do not engage.

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Fraudsters have moved to impersonating me on Discord pretending to offer voice work. Absolutley not me. I hate that

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Average rating: 4.1 · 917,362 ratings · 118,171 reviews · 51 distinct works • Similar authors
A Monster Calls
4.34 avg rating — 294,525 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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The Knife of Never Letting ...
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The Ask and the Answer (Cha...
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Monsters of Men (Chaos Walk...
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More Than This
3.94 avg rating — 70,835 ratings — published 2013 — 62 editions
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The Rest of Us Just Live Here
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The New World (Chaos Walkin...
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Burn
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And the Ocean Was Our Sky
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“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
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“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
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