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Winner - 2009 Costa Children’s Book Award (Ask and Answer)
Winner – Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2008 (Knife)
Winner – Booktrust Teenage Fiction Prize 2008 (Knife)
Short-listed – Carnegie Award 2009 (Knife)
Chaos Walking Book 1: The Knife of Never Letting Go
By Patrick Ness
An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.
Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run…
- The electrifying young adult debut by award-winning fiction writer Patrick Ness now in paperback
- "One of the best first sentences I've ever read and a book that lives up to it!" Frank Cottrell-Boyce
- "It’s a page-turner of epic proportions. My book of 2008." John McLay, Bath Festival of Children’s Literature
About the author
Patrick Ness is the author of two critically acclaimed works of fiction, The Crash of Hennington and Topics About Which I Know Nothing. An award-winning novelist, he has also written for Radio 4, the Sunday Telegraph and is currently a literary critic for the Guardian. This is his first book for young adults.
ISBN:
9781406326314
Imprint:
Walker Books
Distributor:
TL Distribution in Australia & Macmillan Publishers in New Zealand
Binding:
Paperback
Release Date:
October 1, 2009
Dimensions:
140 x 220mm, 496pp
Stock Status:
Backlist title
Australian RRP:
$24.95
New Zealand RRP:
$27.99
Stock Level:
In Stock