Patrick Ness
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.
More Than This
Patrick Ness
A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?
As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife?
From multi-award-winning Patrick Ness comes one of the most provocative and moving novels of our time.
The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
Patrick Ness
We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...
Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of town? And where is Viola? Is she even still alive? And who are the mysterious Answer? And then, one day, the bombs begin to explode...
"The Ask and the Answer" is a tense, shocking and deeply moving novel of resistance under the most extreme pressure. This is the second title in the "Chaos Walking" trilogy.
Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
Patrick Ness
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches. And as the ceaseless Noise lays all thoughts bare, the projected will of the few threatens to overwhelm the desperate desire of the many. The consequences of each action, each word, are unspeakably vast: To follow a tyrant or a terrorist? To save the life of the one you love most or thousands of strangers? To believe in redemption or assume it is lost? Becoming adults amid the turmoil, Todd and Viola question all they have known, racing through horror and outrage toward a shocking finale.
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Patrick Ness
What if you aren’t the Chosen One?
The one who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death?
What if you’re like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.
Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.
Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions...
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
Patrick Ness
Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness.
Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth.
Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves an extraordinary and heartbreaking tale of mischief, healing and above all, the courage it takes to survive.
Release
Patrick Ness
It’s Saturday, it’s summer and, although he doesn’t know it yet, everything in Adam Thorn’s life is going to fall apart. Relationships will change, he’ll change, but maybe, just maybe, he’ll find freedom in the release.
Time is running out though, because way across town a ghost as risen from the lake. Searching, yearning, she leaves a trail of destruction in her wake…
The New World (Chaos Walking, #0.5)
Patrick Ness
The New World is the story of how Viola came to where we found her in The Knife of Never Letting Go.
It is best read immediately after that book because there are hints of things to come.
(I'm always hinting at things to come; it's fun). - Patrick Ness
Burn
Patrick Ness
On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm…
Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to.
The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul, but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe.
Because the dragon knows something she doesn’t. He has arrived at the farm with a prophecy on his mind. A prophecy that involves a deadly assassin, a cult of dragon worshippers, two FBI agents in hot pursuit—and somehow, Sarah Dewhurst herself.
Different for Boys
Patrick Ness
Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who like boys? A poignant and frank story filled with meta-humor by renowned author Patrick Ness.
Anthony “Ant” Stevenson isn’t sure when he stopped being a virgin. Or even if he has. The rules aren’t always very clear when it comes to boys who like boys. In fact, relationships of all kinds feel complicated, even with Ant’s oldest friends. There’s Charlie, who’s both virulently homophobic and in a secret physical relationship with Ant. Then there’s drama kid Jack, who may be gay and has become the target of Charlie’s rage. And, of course, there’s big, beautiful Freddie, who wants Ant to ditch soccer, Charlie’s sport, and try out for the rugby team instead. Ant’s story of loneliness and intimacy, of unexpected support and heart-ripping betrayal, is told forthrightly with tongue-in-cheek black-bar redactions over the language that teenagers would actually use if, you know, they weren’t in a story. Award-winning author Patrick Ness explores teen sexuality, friendship, and romance with a deft hand in this structurally daring, illustrated short novel.
And the Ocean Was Our Sky
Patrick Ness
With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt, fighting in the ongoing war against the world of men. When they attack a ship bobbing on the surface of the Abyss, they expect to find easy prey. Instead, they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself...
As their relentless Captain leads the chase, they embark on a final, vengeful hunt, one that will forever change the worlds of both whales and men.
The Crane Wife
Patrick Ness
The extraordinary happens every day...
One night, George Duncan--decent man, a good man--is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed.
The next day, a kind but enigmatic woman walks into George's shop. Suddenly a new world opens up for George, and one night she starts to tell him the most extraordinary story.
Wise, romantic, magical and funny, The Crane Wife is a hymn to the creative imagination and a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love.
The Wide, Wide Sea (Chaos Walking, #2.5)
Patrick Ness
The Wide, Wide Sea is set in the past, at a time before the Spackle War, and we get a first look at the fishing village on the sea where some very important things happen at the end of Monsters of Men.
Best read after The Ask and the Answer but before Monsters.
(again, hints of things to come) - Patrick Ness
Snowscape (Chaos Walking, #3.5)
Patrick Ness
Snowscape is set after the end of Monsters of Men, so that’s when you should read it.
That’s all I’ll say, I don’t want to give anything away. ;-)
- Patrick Ness
Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy
Patrick Ness
The award-winning Chaos Walking trilogy—consisting of The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, and Monsters of Men—is now available in its entirety in this e-book collection!
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody
Patrick Ness
From the best-selling author of A Monster Calls, this funny, wise middle-grade series explodes every stereotype—including what it means to be a hero—in a brilliant reptilian take on surviving school.
When Principal Wombat makes monitor lizards Zeke, Daniel, and Alicia hall monitors, Zeke gives up on popularity at his new school. Brought in as part of a district blending program, the monitor lizards were mostly ignored before. Reptiles aren’t bullied any more than other students, but they do stick out among zebras, ostriches, and elk. Why would Principal Wombat make them hall monitors? Alicia explains that it’s because mammals are afraid of being yelled (hissed) at by reptiles. The principal’s just a good general, deploying her resources. Zeke balks, until he gets on the wrong side of Pelicarnassus. More than a bully, the pelican is a famed international supervillain—at least when his mother isn’t looking. Maybe the halls are a war zone, and the school needs a hero. Too bad it isn’t . . . Zeke. Smart, relatable, and densely illustrated in black and white for graphic appeal, this middle-grade series debut by a revered author returns to his themes of grief, bullying, and negotiating differences—but with zeal and comic relief to spare.
Un monstruo viene a verme
Patrick Ness
El monstruo apareció justo después de la medianoche. Pero no era el que Conor había estado esperando, el de la pesadilla que ha estado soñando todas las noches desde que su madre comenzó con el tratamiento. El de la oscuridad y el viento y el grito… Ese monstruo del jardín es diferente. Antiguo, salvaje. Y quiere de Conor algo terrible y peligroso. Quiere la verdad.
Los demás seguimos aquí
Patrick Ness
¿Qué pasaría si no fueras el Elegido? ¿El que se supone que tiene que luchar contra zombies o contra los fantasmas come-almas o con lo que quiera que sea esto, contra las luces azules y la muerte? ¿Qué pasaría si fueras como Mike? Él solo quiere graduarse e ir al baile de fin de curso, y quizás conseguir el valor suficiente para pedirle salir a Henna antes de que alguien haga saltar el instituto por los aires. Otra vez. ¿Y qué pasaría si hubiera problemas más importantes para ti que el fin del mundo? ¿Y si solo tuvieras que encontrar lo extraordinario en tu vida normal? Incluso aunque tu mejor amigo sea el Dios de los Pumas... Esta nueva novela de Patrick Ness es descarada, irreverente y desternillante, y nos recuerda que todos tenemos algo extraordinario en nuestras vidas.
The Crash of Hennington
Patrick Ness
Welcome to the seaside metropolis of Hennington, where a mysterious herd of rhinoceros have wandered city-streets for so long they've become a civic feature, where the current Mayor first met her husband on a nude beach, and where Jon Noth has returned after four decades to reclaim a lost love - the Mayor.
Sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht
Patrick Ness
Das Monster erscheint sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht. Aber es ist nicht das Monster, das Conor fürchtet. Was er eigentlich fürchtet, ist jener monströse Albtraum, der ihn jede Nacht quält, seit seine Mutter ihre Behandlung begann. Dieser Traum, in dessen Herzen tiefstes Dunkel herrscht und wo im Abgrund ein Albtraumwesen lauert, bis dann ein Schrei die Nacht zerreißt …
Das Monster aber, das scheinbar im Garten hinter Conors Haus lebt, verkörpert etwas völlig anderes. Es ist uralt, wild und weise – es ist das Leben selbst. Und es ist gekommen, um Conor zu helfen. Doch auf welchen Weg Conor sich mit seinem gigantischen Freund begeben wird, ahnt er nicht. Er wird ihn hinab in die tiefsten Tiefen seiner Seele führen, er wird ihn in seinen Albtraum begleiten und dann wird er ihm das Gefährlichste überhaupt abverlangen: die ganze Wahrheit. Denn nur wenn Conor sich dieser stellt, wird er das wahre Wesen des Lebens erkennen …
Kniven (Chaos Walking, #1)
Patrick Ness
Todd og hunden Manchee lever i byen Prentiss. Alle kvinner, også moren, har dødd av et virus. Alle levende vesener kan høre hverandres tanker i en strøm av bilder, ord og lyder, kalt Støy. Det finnes ingen hemmeligheter. Ingenting som kan holdes skjult. En måned før bursdagen som vil føre ham inn i de voksnes rekker, snubler Todd plutselig over et område der stillheten er absolutt. Ingen ord. Ingen Støy. Noe som ikke er mulig. Og for å holde seg i live må han legge på flukt ... inn i en verden han ikke ante fantes.
El cuchillo en la mano (Chaos Walking, #1)
Patrick Ness
El comienzo de la aclamada trilogía en que se basa la superproducción Chaos Walking.
Del novelista de Un monstruo viene a verme.
Prentisstown no es como el resto de ciudades. Desde que sus habitantes se infectaron con el germen pueden escuchar los pensamientos de la gente de su alrededor en un Ruido constante y abrumador. No existe la privacidad. No hay secretos.
Todd Hewitt es el único adolescente en esta ciudad de hombres. Este nunca ha sido su lugar. Jamás ha encajado. Hasta que por casualidad encuentra un sitio en completo silencio. Algo imposible. Un terrible secreto. Y ahora va a tener que escapar antes de que sea demasiado tarde.
Alternate cover edition for ISBN: 978-8416588763
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Piper at the Gates of Dusk
Patrick Ness
“I dream of Noise,” says our young narrator. But that should be impossible. The Noise was “cured” years ago, though some would argue “cure” is entirely the wrong word for the cost it extracted. But our narrator isn’t the only one hearing it in his sleep; so are all of his friends and maybe every young person on New World.
Something is coming. From an inconceivable interstellar distance away, something is coming that is about to commit an unspeakable crime. Who can stop them? What chance does our narrator and his friends have against an enemy so vast?
Fortunately, his family knows something about saving the world against impossible odds.
His parents are named Todd and Viola.
This unputdownable, compelling trilogy follows a group of young people as they’re thrust into a war they don’t even understand, and asks how much can you forgive your enemy, if at all…
Sette minuti dopo la mezzanotte
Patrick Ness
Una notte di luna e brezza leggera, il piccolo Conor si sveglia di colpo sentendo bussare alla finestra della sua cameretta. Terrorizzato, allunga l'orecchio per cogliere qualche rumore sospetto dal piano di sotto. Nulla. Sono passati sette minuti dalla mezzanotte. D'un tratto, sente chiamare il suo nome. Conor è preso dal panico: potrebbe essere l'apparizione spaventosa che da giorni lo tormenta nel sonno, l'incubo che viene a trovarlo da quando sua madre ha iniziato le cure mediche. Invece, quando si fa coraggio e si sporge dalla finestra, trova ad attenderlo un mostro. Un mostro tutto particolare, però, senza artigli o denti aguzzi.È semplicemente un albero. Antico e selvaggio, una creatura che sembra uscita da un altro tempo. Il mostro è pronto a stringere un patto con lui: nelle notti successive racconterà a Conor tre storie, di quelle che aiutano a uccidere i draghi che ognuno di noi nasconde nel fondo del proprio animo, storie che spingono ad affrontare le paure più grandi. Ma in cambio la creatura misteriosa vuole da lui una quarta storia, un racconto che deve contenere e proteggere la cosa più pericolosa di tutte: la verità.
E l'oceano era il nostro cielo
Patrick Ness
«Patrick Ness esplora i temi della violenza, del potere e della caccia in una favola che reinventa la storia di Moby Dick.» The Bookseller «Un potente inno contro la guerra.» The Times «Straziante, cupo e immenso.» Kirkus Reviews «Meravigliosamente sconvolgente, coraggioso e originale!» Frances Hardinge, autrice di L’albero delle bugie.
La pregunta y la respuesta (Chaos Walking, #2)
Patrick Ness
LA CONTINUACIÓN DE LA
ACLAMADA TRILOGÍA DEL AUTOR
DE UN MONSTRUO VIENE A VERME
En Prentisstown tus pensamientos son públicos. No existen los secretos.
En su huida de un ejército implacable, Todd y Viola se encuentran una vez más con su peor enemigo, el alcalde Prentiss, que los espera para darles la bienvenida a Nueva Prentiss.
Todd es encarcelado y separado inmediatamente de Viola. Ahora tiene que aprender a vivir bajo las reglas del nuevo régimen. Pero ¿qué secretos se esconden fuera de la ciudad? ¿Dónde está Viola? ¿Quién es la misteriosa Respuesta?
Y un día, las bombas comienzan a estallar.
Libre
Patrick Ness
Es sábado, es verano y, aunque todavía no lo sabe, todo en la vida de Adam Thorn está a punto de desmoronarse. Quizá logre encontrar su liberación al fin. Pero no tiene mucho tiempo, porque algo extraordinario y perturbador ha despertado en los confines del lago y se ha puesto en marcha.
De hombres a monstruos (Chaos Walking #3)
Patrick Ness
El final de la aclamada trilogía en que se basa la superproducción Chaos Walking.
Del novelista de Un monstruo viene a verme.
Tres facciones marchan hacia New Prentisstown y hacia una guerra que puede destruir todo cuanto Todd y Viola conocen. Las consecuencias de cada acción, y de cada palabra, son incalculables. ¿Apoyarán a un tirano, o a un terrorista? ¿Es mejor salvar la vida de quien más quieres, o la de miles de extraños? ¿Es posible la redención, o hay que darla por perdida?
Y mientras el Ruido, incesante, descubre todos los pensamientos, la voluntad de unos amenaza con superar el deseo desesperado de otros.
Todd y Viola no tienen posibilidad de escapar. Y si la guerra convierte a los hombres en monstruos, ¿qué terribles decisiones les aguardan?
Tip of the Tongue (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts, #5)
Patrick Ness
In 1945, a strange new craze for Truth Tellers is sweeping the kids of small-town America. The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa soon arrive to investigate the phenomenon, only to discover that the actual truth behind the Truth Tellers is far more sinister than anyone could have imagined ...
Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord.
Mentre noi Restiamo Qui
Patrick Ness
Mentre i coraggiosi Prescelti - gli indie, con i capelli perfetti e i vestiti vintage - tentano di salvare il mondo dall'Apocalisse, in uno sperduto paesino di provincia Michael, un ragazzo normale che studia e che, al massimo, combatte contro la noia, ha desideri più semplici: per esempio riuscire a baciare Henna, di cui è innamorato da sempre, aiutare la sua problematica sorella Mel, e studiare per gli esami senza perdere l'amicizia con Jared, il migliore amico che sembra nascondergli più di un segreto. Tra apparizioni di daini dagli occhi illuminati d'azzurro, attacchi di zombie e misteriose morti dei Prescelti, Michael scoprirà che, anche se tutto attorno a lui sembra avvicinarsi alla catastrofe, le vite ordinarie come la sua possono rivelarsi le più straordinarie di tutte.
C'è un momento in cui la vita stessa viene invasa dalle storie degli altri, e non c'è nient'altro da fare che tener duro e sperare di ritrovarti ancora vivo alla fine, per poter riprendere il filo della tua storia. Ed è quel che abbiamo fatto.
Topics About Which I Know Nothing
Patrick Ness
Scintillating, surprising, inventive fiction from one of the most talented writers in Britain - this is a superb collection of short stories from the acclaimed author of the Chaos Walking series and 'More Than This'. Have you heard the urban myth about Jesus's double-jointed elbows yet? 100% true. Or seen the latest reports on the 'groomgrabbing' trend - the benevolent kidnapping of badly-dressed children by their well-meaning (and more dapper) elders? Heard the one about the Amazon from the Isle of Man? Or perhaps you'd like a job in telesales, offering self-defence classes over the phone? Don't worry, as long as you meet the weekly quota, you won't be sent to the end of the hall...Wonderfully original, fresh and funny, 'Topics About Which I Know Nothing' is stuffed to the gills with dizzyingly inventive writing and warming, puzzling emotions - a fictional guide to how the world might have turned out.
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