An Evening With Patrick Ness
Join us as we welcome the acclaimed author Patrick Ness to celebrate ten incredible years of Chaos Walking. Join Patrick for an evening of stories, questions and creativity. In conversation with Lucy Burke.
Plus hear all about Patrick's new series Piper at the Gates of Dusk.
Your ticket includes entry to the event and one copy of the Chaos Walking series- you can decide which book on the night itself!
About the Chaos Walking Series
Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in a constant, overwhelming Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets. Then Todd Hewitt unexpectedly stumbles on a spot of complete silence. Which is impossible.
And now he’s going to have to run…
Patrick Ness’s award-winning modern classic makes essential, gripping reading and is a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley.
About Patrick Ness
Taking his characters, and readers, everywhere from the depths of consciousness to other worlds and yet further - to places beyond death - Patrick Ness is one of the most startlingly original and thought-provoking of contemporary novelists.
His writing has garnered a wealth of awards including the Carnegie Medal (which Ness has won twice), the Costa Children’s Book Award and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for novels including the bestselling trilogy Chaos Walking, and books such as More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here and perhaps most famously, the extraordinary A Monster Calls.
About Your Host
Lucy Burke is an award-winning writer for stage, screen and radio. For theatre, her debut play Glitter Punch (Nick Hern Books) had critically acclaimed, sold-out runs in London and Edinburgh before transferring internationally to Msida, Malta and more recently to Sydney, Australia. For screen, after winning the Channel 4 Writing for Television Award in 2021, Lucy joined the writing team for Channel 4’s prime-time, continuing drama Hollyoaks and has since penned multiple episodes. In 2023, Lucy was the recipient of a ScreenSkills bursary, which she used to develop her original sports thriller Rocked under guidance from Dancing Ledge Productions (The Responder, Big Mood) and writer Namsi Khan (Black Mirror, I Came By.) For radio, Lucy has had her work performed on BBC Radio 3 and has also guest presented for the BBC’s award-winning podcast Ouch!
@lucyburke92
Event Details
6.30pm - Doors
7.00pm - Event Start
7.45pm - Q&A
8.00pm - Book Signing