Patrick Ness PIPER AT THE GATES OF DUSK with Katherine Webber

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Thu Apr 16 2026 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC+01:00

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Blackwell's Bookshop | Oxford, EN

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Return to the Chaos Walking universe with Patrick Ness as he talks about his much-anticipated YA novel Piper at the Gates of Dusk.
About this Event

The first in a new trilogy set in the world of the groundbreaking Chaos Walking series, which has sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide.·

The Piper at the Gates of Dusk

Now, almost twenty years on, Patrick Ness makes a momentous return to New World.


Something has been spotted in the night sky. Something that's bringing back dreams of Noise, dreams of terror. Brothers Ben and Max have never really gotten on, each being more like one of their parents - Todd and Viola.
But now they will have to come together.
SOMETHING IS COMING.

Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness, an award-winning novelist, has written for Radio 4 and The Sunday Telegraph and is a literary critic for The Guardian. He has written many books, including the Chaos Walking Trilogy, The Crash of Hennington, Topics About Which I Know Nothing, and A Monster Calls.
He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children’s Book Award. Born in Virginia, he currently lives in London.

Katherine Webber Tsang

Katherine Webber is a bestselling and award-winning author of children’s and young adult books. Since 2017, she has published over twenty books across multiple genres for readers of all ages, and has been translated in more than a dozen languages. Her recent YA novels include the internationally bestselling Twin Crowns trilogy, co-written with Catherine Doyle, as well as The Revelry and Only Love Can Break Your Heart. In addition to her Young Adult novels, Katherine also writes younger fiction as Katie Tsang in collaboration with her husband Kevin.

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