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Fans of Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking Trilogy (The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer) will be exciting about this! Patrick has published a short story, focusing on a certain little girl who crash landed on Earth.

According to Patrick, “It’s a brand new, exclusive, FREE short story from the world of Chaos Walking written for my Writer In Residency at Booktrust. And it might, just possibly contain hints of things to come in books three, but I couldn’t possibly comment otherwise…”

Click here for the story.

This just in from Patrick Ness’s blog:

And here it is, the promised first peek at the UK cover for “The Ask and the Answer”.

The Big A is in foil on the hardcover and all the blue printing is on the clear acetate sleeve.  Pretty nifty, eh?  Wait ’til you see it in person.  The US cover (not coming out until September) is different, but this UK one will be out 4 May.  Not long to go.

I’ll be back to the diary in a couple weeks (it’s coming time for a redesign here, so I’m looking into it) with a nice little announcement or two.

So what do we think folks? I’m stoked about this. I can’t wait for the book release!

Fans of the Patrick Ness book, The Knife of Never Letting Go, will be pleased to know that the second book in the series, The Ask and The Answer, will be available for purchase in the UK in May. If you’re in Australia you’ll have to wait till July, but its he Americans that fair the worst, with the book not available in the States till September.

Here’s a sneak peak:

“Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola the last few feet into Haven…  And right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss.

“In exchange for Viola’s safety, Todd is forced to work with the Mayor in creating a new society for the settlers to come, one based on bringing an ominous-sounding order to the chaos of New Prentisstown.

“But what secrets are hiding just outside of town? And where is Viola? Is she even still alive? And who are the mysterious Answer?

“And then, one day, the bombs begin to explode…

“Tense, shocking and deeply moving, The Ask and the Answer is a terrifying novel of resistance under the most extreme pressure.”

Stay tuned for more info. Cover art coming soon!

Courtesy of Walker Books, and in conjunction with our Editor’s Pick for this month, we’re happy to announce that we have five Chaos Walking prize packs to giveaway. The prize packs contain one copy of The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness (book two in the Chaos Walking trilogy) and an Ask and Answer poster. All you have to do is leave your name in the comment field below! Contest closes July 30.

Product Description: We were in the square, in the square where I’d run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her – But there weren’t no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men. Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced t learn the ways of the Mayor’s new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of town? And where is Viola? Is she even still alive? And who are the mysterious Answer? And then, one day, the bombs begin to explode. “The Ask and the Answer” is a tense, shocking and deeply moving novel of resistance under the most extreme pressure. This is the second book in the “Chaos Walking” trilogy.