Day of appearance – Saturday 31st October
Patrick Ness is the award-winning and bestselling author of A Monster Calls, More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here and Release as well as the legendary Chaos Walking trilogy. The first book in his middle grade series, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody, was shortlisted for the Nero Awards. John Green has described him as “an insanely beautiful writer”. He has won every major prize in children’s fiction, including the Carnegie Medal for Writing twice. He has written the screenplay for the film of A Monster Calls and the BBC Dr Who spin-off, Class. He lives in London.
Panel Information: In the presence of dystopia
Dystopian stories have been a stable part of our reading lists for decades and they show no signs of slowing down now. Our authors discuss how the genre is still relevant, what inspires them and what we can learn from stories showing a world we would rather not live in.
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