Patrick Ness is the multi-award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of books for adults, young adults and children, including A Monster Calls and the Chaos Walking trilogy. He is published in over 40 languages, and 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 has adapted two of his works for films. Patrick Ness's critically-acclaimed novels include The Crash of Hennington, The Crane Wife , More Than This , The Rest of Just Live Here , Release , A nd the Ocean Was Our Sky, Burn, Different for Boys , his middle grade series Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody , and Piper at the Gates of Dusk, the first of The New World trilogy. patrickness.com @patricknessbooks.