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Archives
- 2012.02.01: A Monster Calls paperback! And The Siobhan Dowd Trust
- 2012.01.29: Foyles on Wednesday
- 2012.01.22: Extra week to vote for Red House
- 2012.01.14: Tentacles!
- 2012.01.12: Red House Book voting still open!
- 2012.01.10: Oxford Literature Fest - 24 March
- 2012.01.08: Website overhaul!
- 2012.01.03: Foyles Event Tickets now available (free!)
- 2011.12.29: Cologne Book Festival appearance
- 2011.12.23: London event! And much more.
- 2011.12.19: Last day to vote for A Monster Calls!
- 2011.12.16: Russell Hoban and A Monster Calls audiobook
- 2011.12.13: Front Row and a movie note
- 2011.12.09: Guardian podcast
- 2011.12.05: Watch my TV show online!
- 2011.12.02: Me on TV!
- 2011.11.29: Books of the Year & stuff
- 2011.11.24: Book Slam Book
- 2011.11.16: Where to write letters (and voting)
- 2011.11.08: PW Best of 2011 and vote for me!
- 2011.11.05: Galaxy National Book Award win!
- 2011.11.04: Carnegie/Greenaway (very) longlists and rainy Marathon photo
- 2011.11.01: Dublin Marathon and Red House Book Award!
- 2011.10.23: NYT Editor's Pick and an iPod of All
- 2011.10.17: A Monster Calls shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards
- 2011.10.15: New York Times
- 2011.10.10: Movie stuff
- 2011.10.05: A Monster Calls US blog tour - final stops!
- 2011.10.03: Big announcement time! Film rights for Chaos Walking sold to makers of The Hunger Games! Exclamation points!
- 2011.10.02: A Monster Calls is the Boston Globe pick of the week!
- 2011.09.30: Two new blog tour entries
- 2011.09.29: Two new A Monster Calls interviews, a new England event, and more...
- 2011.09.28: Wednesday blog tour guest spot
- 2011.09.27: US publication day for A Monster Calls
- 2011.09.26: A Monster Calls US blog tour begins
- 2011.09.24: Review of A Monster Calls in the Wall Street Journal
- 2011.09.22: American trailer for A Monster Calls
- 2011.09.21: So much to come this week!
- 2011.09.08: More travels
- 2011.08.29: German publication of A Monster Calls
- 2011.08.26: German Tour (and a nifty Knife trailer)
- 2011.08.25: A Monster Calls things
- 2011.08.20: Edinburgh, radio, review
- 2011.08.17: A Monster Calls discussion guide
- 2011.08.12: BBC
- 2011.07.31: Events! Yes, I'm doing events.
- 2011.07.23: Norway
- 2011.07.17: New videos
- 2011.07.14: New event added at Edinburgh Book Fest!
- 2011.07.13: Back from holiday
- 2011.07.02: Hero column and Scotsman review
- 2011.06.28: Edinburgh Festival Tickets and the Carnegie Speech
- 2011.06.24: Carnegie Medal
- 2011.06.21: Songs based on A Monster Calls
- 2011.06.20: First US review (and it's a good 'un), plus a Twitterview (or whatever they're calling it)
- 2011.06.16: A Monster Calls on Irish TV (and radio!)
- 2011.06.14: Edinburgh Fest and Carnegie Medal coming up
- 2011.06.08: Event in Bath and Korean covers!
- 2011.06.03: In so many languages...
- 2011.05.27: Back and off again
- 2011.05.17: Full blog tour details and Hay
- 2011.05.15: Travelling and more reviews
- 2011.05.09: BBC Scotland, podcasts, more
- 2011.05.08: Open Book on Radio 4 and touring
- 2011.05.06: Podcast and 1st A Monster Calls review
- 2011.05.05: Publication Day!
- 2011.05.02: Publication week, cool audiobook news, and others
- 2011.04.28: A Monster Calls extract and competition (and lots else!)
- 2011.04.22: Public events, a new fanpage and all sorts!
- 2011.04.18: Irish radio tonight! (and Dubai radio later)
- 2011.04.15: Marathon, French Monsters and more
- 2011.04.11: Video and events!
- 2011.04.08: Top 10 "unsuitable" reads for teenagers
- 2011.04.04: Lots of things: Carnegie, the government, Hay
- 2011.04.01: Monsters of Men shortlisted for Carnegie Medal!
- 2011.03.25: iPod of Super
- 2011.03.21: A Monster Calls illustrator, site updates, poetry!
- 2011.03.18: A Monster Calls - early notices
- 2011.03.16: Works in progress
- 2011.03.11: Hay Festival appearance w/David Almond
- 2011.03.07: Make me do stuff! and other things
- 2011.03.04: Arthur C Clarke Award shortlisting!
- 2011.03.02: Patrick Ness is on Twitter!
- 2011.02.28: Back from holiday!
- 2011.02.18: Radiohead
- 2011.02.16: Calm before the storm
- 2011.02.09: Illustrator!
- 2011.02.05: Quick hits (and Lady Gaga)
- 2011.02.03: The 2nd month, all's well
- 2011.01.29: German interview and mistaken identity
- 2011.01.27: Q
- 2011.01.22: A long week
- 2011.01.16: iPod of One
- 2011.01.11: Odyssey and La Guerre du Bruit
- 2011.01.07: Minna no Nihongo!
- 2011.01.03: 16 Miles
- 2011.01.01: Happy New Year
- 2010.12.27: Knife for a pound!
- 2010.12.20: Christmas!
- 2010.12.12: Monsters of Men on Best of the Year lists (and a really cool write-up from a librarian, which is even better)
- 2010.12.08: King Lear and then the government...
- 2010.11.30: Video and press!
- 2010.11.26: Please give!
- 2010.11.19: Pre-order A Monster Calls
- 2010.11.17: Amazon podcast and Booklist interview
- 2010.11.15: Watch me online in a tux!
- 2010.11.11: Me on TV on Saturday
- 2010.11.09: Monsters on Best Books of the Year (and other important stuff)
- 2010.11.07: Carnegie Longlist and Hungarian Knife
- 2010.11.04: A Monster Calls cover sneak-peak
- 2010.11.01: Me on the radio!
- 2010.10.28: Galaxy National Book Awards
- 2010.10.25: Monsters of Men on Kindle (and further travels)
- 2010.10.20: Chaos Walking on Kindle and Nook
- 2010.10.14: Tube photos and Kindle launch
- 2010.10.10: US wrap-up and Wall Street Journal review
- 2010.10.07: Tube Ads, US appearances, and local press
- 2010.10.03: On the road (and free Chaos Walking short story link)
- 2010.09.28: Monsters of Men is out!
- 2010.09.24: 4 More Days (& German Monsters!)
- 2010.09.20: Counting Down for US Monsters of Men
- 2010.09.17: Wordstock Festival
- 2010.09.12: New St. Paul signing (of interest to Suzanne Collins fans, too)
- 2010.09.09: Coming to America
- 2010.09.02: Monsters paperback! And Swedish book of the month!
- 2010.08.30: Monsters (and Mockingjay) on Huffington Post
- 2010.08.26: The books to come
- 2010.08.24: Edinburgh wrap-up
- 2010.08.18: Twitter questions, Edinburgh and Losing It trailer
- 2010.08.16: Swedish Kaos!
- 2010.08.12: Chaos Walking - eBook and Kindle answers
- 2010.08.08: August news
- 2010.08.03: Monsters of Men - Publisher's Weekly starred review
- 2010.08.02: Auction over (and new review)
- 2010.07.26: Bid for original artwork by me (for charity!)
- 2010.07.25: Play The Shape Game book
- 2010.07.20: Big Publishers Weekly profile (and a sneak-peak at the title of my next book)
- 2010.07.16: Podcast about writing
- 2010.07.13: London event & Edinburgh
- 2010.07.08: Starred review, Losing It released, and more
- 2010.07.05: Play The Shape Game, and new Knife French edition
- 2010.07.01: US Monsters, US tour and more!
- 2010.06.28: Audio Books!
- 2010.06.25: Carnegie and Edinburgh Fest tickets on sale!
- 2010.06.23: Carnegie Medal announced tomorrow
- 2010.06.20: London Event in July!
- 2010.06.13: Away for a week
- 2010.06.12: Photo in today's Times
- 2010.06.11: Losing It review and event
- 2010.06.09: Bits & Bobs
- 2010.06.07: 'Knife' in the New Yorker
- 2010.06.06: Irish Times Review
- 2010.06.02: Hay Festival and a fan trailer for Knife!
- 2010.05.30: Back from holiday (busy as ever)
- 2010.05.17: Hay and away
- 2010.05.15: Ireland
- 2010.05.12: Best Children's Books Ever
- 2010.05.11: New review
- 2010.05.09: Ireland and Monsters review
- 2010.05.05: Clips o' me
- 2010.05.02: Profile in the Independent on Sunday (with photo!)
- 2010.04.30: Monsters of Men trailer! It's awesome.
- 2010.04.28: Monsters of Men is (mostly) here!
- 2010.04.27: Edinburgh Festival, Hay Festival, Ireland, and Monsters of Men
- 2010.04.23: The Ask and the Answer on the Carnegie shortlist!
- 2010.04.19: I'm coming to Dublin!
- 2010.04.16: Two weeks to go
- 2010.04.12: The Knife of Never Letting Go in Turkish!
- 2010.04.08: Waterstones Books Quarterly Magazine (and a pretty cool photo)
- 2010.04.07: Events for May/June
- 2010.03.29: I'm back
- 2010.03.24: Big announcement: The book that will follow Monsters of Men
- 2010.03.18: Radio 3 appearance, eBooks, Australia and Monsters of Men
- 2010.03.13: The wind keeps whirling - Auckland, now Brisbane
- 2010.03.13: The wind keeps whirling - Auckland, now Brisbane
- 2010.03.11: Me on TV
- 2010.03.10: I'm on "Good Morning" on TVNZ tomorrow!
- 2010.03.08: Sydney and Tasmania
- 2010.03.04: Melbourne
- 2010.02.28: Perth
- 2010.02.21: Australia/New Zealand tour starts this week
- 2010.02.19: Interview on BBC Radio 3 and also leaving soon...
- 2010.02.15: Monsters US Cover!! Exclusive!
- 2010.02.12: LSE event and French release
- 2010.02.07: One more New Zealand event
- 2010.02.04: Me on New Zealand television, Monsters in German and lots more
- 2010.02.02: Twitterview results and more Aust/NZ info
- 2010.01.31: Twitterview tomorrow and Australia schedule up!
- 2010.01.27: Costa Book Awards
- 2010.01.24: Ask me questions on a Twitter interview!
- 2010.01.21: Waterstone's page!
- 2010.01.17: LSE Festival - 11 February
- 2010.01.13: Arvon Foundation
- 2010.01.10: A busy week
- 2010.01.04: The Ask and the Answer wins the Costa Award (and I get interviewed on the BBC about it)
- 2010.01.01: Happy New Year (comments)
- 2009.12.23: Happy Holidays and the year to come...
- 2009.12.17: CBC Radio
- 2009.12.13: Ask in more year-end round-ups and on Radio 4
- 2009.12.07: Finally over that pesky cold
- 2009.12.02: Comments, comments, comments
- 2009.11.28: Another quick hit from the holiday
- 2009.11.25: Costa Book Awards
- 2009.11.20: Gigs
- 2009.11.16: The Ask and the Answer in Sunday Express Best Christmas Reads
- 2009.11.11: Swindon visit
- 2009.11.08: A world exclusive premiere - the cover of Monsters of Men
- 2009.11.06: Two award nominations for The Ask and the Answer
- 2009.11.05: Monsters of Men - the end is nigh(ish)!
- 2009.11.02: Two US Best Books of the Year Lists!
- 2009.10.30: Those talking dogs
- 2009.10.26: Apparently, you can already order it
- 2009.10.23: Cambridge tomorrow and Monsters of Men news(ish)
- 2009.10.20: It's all a dream, just keep telling yourself that
- 2009.10.17: Back home at last, plus Facebook and a good day
- 2009.10.11: Prize announcements and a week up north
- 2009.10.11: Prize announcements and a week up north
- 2009.10.07: Dunraven School and another signing appearance
- 2009.10.05: German Ask, an appearance in Preston, and musical comments...
- 2009.09.30: Site refresh and your comments...
- 2009.09.24: Those National Rail Posters I was talking about...
- 2009.09.21: Booktrust Teenage Prize & train posters!
- 2009.09.16: The Wall Street Journal and a fond farewell
- 2009.09.11: I'm back!
- 2009.08.24: Edinburgh Festival and how to get published...
- 2009.08.17: Corrections
- 2009.08.09: A bunch of important things
- 2009.08.03: Chaos Walking : Book Three - The Title Revealed...
- 2009.07.31: Chaos Walking Book 3 - title announced Monday!!
- 2009.07.26: Festivals, Australia and the title of book 3!!!
- 2009.07.19: Sci-Fi people are the best company in all of publishing
- 2009.07.17: New Booktrust blog...............
- 2009.07.13: New writer's tips up! (Writers' tips, maybe? Writing tips?)
- 2009.07.07: Australia and some sad news
- 2009.07.01: Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009 Longlist
- 2009.06.29: New Chaos Walking story available free! Right now!
- 2009.06.26: A story of Chaos Walking
- 2009.06.25: Carnegie Medal, and a drumroll begins...
- 2009.06.24: Carnegie
- 2009.06.20: Keep staying tuned...............
- 2009.06.15: Stay tuned
- 2009.06.12: First Carnegie event.............
- 2009.06.10: Australian Radio and the Children's Laureate
- 2009.06.08: Back from Holiday (and Australian Radio)
- 2009.05.28: Hay
- 2009.05.25: Hay Festival
- 2009.05.23: Interviews, Prizes, Tips (Take your pick, it's a busy week)
- 2009.05.21: Edinburgh
- 2009.05.18: A brilliant trip to Ireland.........
- 2009.05.12: More travel
- 2009.05.08: How can it be May 8th already?
- 2009.04.29: Brighton Festival
- 2009.04.27: Marathon of carnage.................
- 2009.04.24: Carnegie Medal Shortlist..........
- 2009.04.23: The day approacheth............
- 2009.04.19: London Book Fair and new tips for writers
- 2009.04.16: Site updates - yes, more than one!
- 2009.04.11: First review of The Ask and the Answer
- 2009.04.08: La voix du couteau................
- 2009.04.02: New tips & events..................
- 2009.03.29: 21, not quite done
- 2009.03.28: New things
- 2009.03.24: And still they come..............
- 2009.03.19: A very strange phenomena - but what's the scam?
- 2009.03.17: Booktrust update
- 2009.03.15: Hastings Half-Marathon........
- 2009.03.14: Gus
- 2009.03.13: Again with the time issue.......
- 2009.03.09: I'm the new (and first) Booktrust Writer in Residence!
- 2009.03.06: How does anyone ever find time to write?
- 2009.03.01: Guardian review
- 2009.02.28: LSE event
- 2009.02.24: Oscars, University Challenge, and a new event
- 2009.02.21: DisneyWorld on 9,000 calories a day
- 2009.02.10: "The Ask and the Answer" Cover
- 2009.02.06: A big day
- 2009.02.04: Chaos Walking Book 2 : The Ask and the Answer
- 2009.02.02: 18 miles before being buried
- 2009.01.28: Book now - Spring Awakening
- 2009.01.26: Mud and canals
- 2009.01.23: Not, in fact, about Jennifer Garner at all
- 2009.01.21: That inauguration
- 2009.01.16: But what if, just theoretically, you're a good boy and don't really care for fudge?
- 2009.01.14: Satellite Radio interview.......
- 2009.01.13: Eine kleine Nachtmusik - with jokes
- 2009.01.07: Give me your money!
- 2008.12.31: Knighthoods, New Year's and the proper response
- 2008.12.29: Hamlet: The Director's Cut.....
- 2008.12.27: Stand back! I'm dangerous......
- 2008.12.24: Merry Exmouth
- 2008.12.22: Guardian
- 2008.12.21: Xmas Cards
- 2008.12.19: The problem with David Hare.....
- 2008.12.17: The baffled king composing allikazula-menchikabula-ibbidi-bobbidi-boo
- 2008.12.12: If we all just didn't panic.....
- 2008.12.07: More round-ups
- 2008.12.05: Update
- 2008.11.28: Big Science Read event - Manchester
- 2008.11.27: The iPod EP of Don't Tell Anyone
- 2008.11.22: The Times of London calling...
- 2008.11.18: BookTrust Teenage Prize.......
- 2008.11.16: Independent 50 Books For Winter
- 2008.11.13: Back and Busy and Book Two
- 2008.11.07: Borders television
- 2008.11.06: Carnegie Longlist
- 2008.11.04: Amazon.com Books of the Year
- 2008.10.30: Before I go...
- 2008.10.25: Guardian competition for young writers
- 2008.10.24: I've been Wikied (and a new play to see)
- 2008.10.20: Knife paperback in stores now(ish)! And events, too...
- 2008.10.18: An all northern diary entry....
- 2008.10.16: We'd rule the world if we could decide what to wear
- 2008.10.13: Sprechen Sie iPod EP, bitte?
- 2008.10.09: I'll admit it, I've never heard of him
- 2008.10.06: Half-Marathon post mortem
- 2008.10.03: I'm too busy never walking alone
- 2008.09.28: And on...
- 2008.09.25: How do you write a subject line that says, "I won!" without looking like a prat?
- 2008.09.21: The Power iPod of One........
- 2008.09.16: Ivanov
- 2008.09.14: David Foster Wallace
- 2008.09.12: Spam
- 2008.09.09: Knife of Never Letting Go in America
- 2008.09.06: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
- 2008.09.04: Impending sorority..............
- 2008.09.01: BookTrust Teenage Prize Shortlist (and I'm on it!)
- 2008.08.28: Run For Shelter
- 2008.08.24: They give us 2,008 drummers, we give them Leona Lewis
- 2008.08.20: A little tribute to the wee bodger
- 2008.08.18: Reviews, races, casualty and my red little eye
- 2008.08.15: The Olympic iPod of Long (new WR)
- 2008.08.11: Trumpets fanfare, tri-coloured smoke rises, and fighter planes fly over in formation
- 2008.08.08: Me on Irish television (re-redux)
- 2008.08.07: The iPod of short
- 2008.08.03: Worst Show Ever
- 2008.08.01: Me on telly via tellyphone (and more awards, too)
- 2008.07.30: The Buzz
- 2008.07.28: A note to Irish viewers!
- 2008.07.19: Worst Theatrical Idea of the Millenneum
- 2008.07.15: Book News (and music, too)
- 2008.07.11: iPod of Drag
- 2008.07.07: Wimbledon
- 2008.07.06: Culture! Culture, I tell you!
- 2008.07.04: Independence Day and Turkeys
- 2008.06.30: Hitting While Sleeping
- 2008.06.25: iPod of Countdown
- 2008.06.21: More reviews
- 2008.06.17: Frank Cottrell-Boyce...
- 2008.06.13: A Coincidence of Mining
- 2008.06.10: I hadn't gone anywhere...
- 2008.05.28: The Hay-on-Wye mudpack experience
- 2008.05.23: I've been longlisted!
- 2008.05.22: Run for Shelter
- 2008.05.19: iPod of the Way
- 2008.05.14: Political amnesia (and iTunes)
- 2008.05.11: Brighton
- 2008.05.09: Saved by the Glitch (and more iTunes)
- 2008.05.06: The Month of Obstacle Thinking
- 2008.05.01: I'm on iTunes
- 2008.04.28: Early Reviews
- 2008.04.25: Countdown
- 2008.04.20: The iPod of Seven
- 2008.04.15: Tardiness
- 2008.04.09: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (and The 39 Steps)
- 2008.04.08: Back to work
- 2008.04.04: More tooting
- 2008.03.30: Paternity/Fraternity (and the iPod of Loo)
- 2008.03.25: New! New! New!
- 2008.03.25: Never So Dull
- 2008.03.23: Easter snow
- 2008.03.19: The iPod of Ka
- 2008.03.14: Brighton Festival appearance (and the Salvation Army)
- 2008.03.12: The Diving Bell and The History Butterflies
- 2008.03.08: Limping
- 2008.03.04: The Man Who Had All The Luck (but was unable to pronounce "Amos")
- 2008.03.03: The long-awaited iPod of Don't (which does not, and never will, include "Don't Worry, Be Happy")
- 2008.02.28: Earthquake
- 2008.02.27: Bookkeeping
- 2008.02.23: Second drafts
- 2008.02.18: Claridge's and the chiastic EP
- 2008.02.15: Great movie, Hideous trailer
- 2008.02.13: Averaging out to normal speech
- 2008.02.11: The Secret Power Behind British Film
- 2008.02.10: The iPod of Do
- 2008.02.07: Richard and Judy and Harold
- 2008.02.03: Buy! Buy! Buy!
- 2008.01.28: Hard copy
- 2008.01.27: Othello
- 2008.01.23: No Country For Old Men...
- 2008.01.22: Does a bear market shit in the woods?
- 2008.01.20: Run
- 2008.01.17: The Vertical Hours and hours and hours...
- 2008.01.14: iPods of Apocalypse and Death
- 2008.01.13: All together now, "I am what I AMMMM....
- 2008.01.10: Second drafts
- 2008.01.06: Yes, yes, it's New Year, I know, can't we all just back to work already?
- 2007.12.28: DUM!!! Dum-dum-dum-dum-DUM!!!
- 2007.12.18: Doubtful American Accents....
- 2007.12.14: Watch as the crowd turns against Daisy and Lily...
- 2007.12.12: Women of Troy
- 2007.12.10: Crowded House
- 2007.12.05: Run
- 2007.12.01: Novellas and Gaelic...........
- 2007.11.28: Galleys
- 2007.11.24: Orff, Shakespeare, Da Vinci and a naked old man
- 2007.11.19: The Cultural Week To Come...
- 2007.11.13: War Horse
- 2007.11.10: Driving
- 2007.10.30: My iPod and U
- 2007.10.22: Up North
- 2007.10.17: Anne Enright
- 2007.10.14: I would've said £9, I think, if I hadn't gone deluxe
- 2007.10.05: Isles of Scilly
- 2007.10.01: Boris Johnson As A Multi-Tentacled Demon
- 2007.09.27: My Concert DVD
- 2007.09.22: "Hooray For Lesbians"
- 2007.09.19: First Real Entry
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