Double Carnegie medal-winning author Patrick Ness is one of the world's most loved young adult writers. He won the Carnegie Medal for Monsters of Men in 2011, and in 2012 he won for A Monster Calls - said to be one of the most powerful novels about loss ever written.
Patrick's latest book is his first for junior readers. Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody is a reptilian take on surviving school.
All heart and never one to shy away, Patrick is touring Australia and New Zealand this month discussing, among other things, writing masculinity, LGBTQIA+ stories and adapting his work into Hollywood films. He's speaking at Verb Readers and Writer Festival and the Auckland Writers Festival.
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