#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
6:30pm, Monday 18 November 2024
Loft West End, 100 Boundary St
Master storyteller and bestselling international author Patrick Ness will be coming to Brisbane this November as part of his Australia and New Zealand tour. Hear him in conversation with David Burton about his critically acclaimed works including A Monster Calls, More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and the Chaos Walking trilogy, which inspired a major motion picture.
Note: this event is aimed at general audiences; for his event aimed at school groups and focused on his new middle grade novel, go to Patrick Ness: Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody.
#Artists
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness (he/him) is the New York Times best-selling author of A Monster Calls (inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd), which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was made into a major motion picture for which he wrote the screenplay. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy, More Than This, Release, Different for Boys, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Burn, and his latest, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody. His many accolades include two Carnegie Medals, an Olivier Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Book Trust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children’s Book Award. Patrick Ness lives in London and Los Angeles.
David Burton
David Burton is an award-winning writer from Brisbane. He has written over thirty professionally produced theatrical works, including several pieces for the youth and education sector, and directed productions for the Queensland Music Festival. His memoir, How to Be Happy, won the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing in 2014. The Man in the Water is his first novel.
