Different for Boys

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).

Alex Wingfield is an actor and musician with bases in London and Leeds. Alex completed the Musical Theatre postgraduate programme at the Royal Academy of Music. He has worked in a variety of fields, including audiobook narration, dubbing, ADR, educational voiceovers, commercial, games and animation. He specialises in narrating books aimed at a younger audience. His audiobooks include The Smallest Man by Frances Quinn and the Letters of Enchantment series by Rebecca Ross.