Chaos Walking #1: The Knife of Never Letting Go Award-winning by Patrick Ness (author) (UK edition)

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…

To celebrate the upcoming release of Piper at the Gates of Dusk, a new novel in the iconic world of Chaos Walking, in April 2026, this new edition features a fresh jacket, sprayed edges and an additional short story: The New World.

“Ness doesn’t just tell stories – he illuminates the human heart.” – Cassandra Clare

“A masterpiece of speculative fiction” – Neal Shusterman

“A touchstone for powerful young adult literature. Inventive, gut-wrenching, and all-consuming, this is an unforgettable coming-of-age reading experience.” – Chloe Gong

“An epic journey through both a science-fiction world of extraordinary imagination and an emotional landscape of gripping intensity.” – Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Intelligent, compelling and utterly devastating, Chaos Walking is one of the seminal YA series of this century.” – Juno Dawson

Winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize.

Product Details

Series

Chaos Walking (book 1)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406379167

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

Date published

February 1st, 2018

Other details

496 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Part of this Series

Chaos Walking

Author/Illustrator

Patrick Ness

Bestselling and award-winning novelist Patrick Ness was born in Virginia, USA, and spent his upbringing in the states of Hawaii, Washington and California. He has lived in London since 1999. He is the author of a novel and short story collection for adults, but is best known for the Chaos Walking trilogy: The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men. The trilogy has won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Costa Children’s Book of the Year Prize, and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. In 2011 Monsters of Men won the prestigious Carnegie Medal after all three books in the trilogy were shortlisted, the first time that has ever happened.

A Monster Calls is Patrick’s sixth book, created from the final idea of 2009 Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose early death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. In 2012 it became the first book ever to win both the Carnegie Medal and Kate Greenaway Award in the same year.