A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness is the internationally and New York Times bestselling author of A Monster Calls, 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 bestselling Chaos Walking trilogy, More Than This, Release, Different for Boys, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Burn, and 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. Ness lives in London and his latest book for young adults is Piper at the Gates of Dusk (2026).

BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated Jason Isaacs is one of Britain’s most talented and versatile actors. He is probably best-known as the villain Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films but has been starring in film, television and theatre around the world for 35 years. Movie appearances include The Patriot, Black Hawk Down, Armageddon, Event Horizon, The Death of Stalin and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris. On television he captained a spaceship in Star Trek: Discovery, jumped dimensions in The OA and saved the day in Case Histories. His many voices have been heard in hundreds of video games, TV series and animated movies.