Wilder places
I have just come back from six days in Fremantle. And although they have the internet and newspapers (sort of), I have only now discovered the winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. It ’s Patrick Ness for The Knife of Never Letting Go, an exciting and original novel about a boy’s journey into the wilderness.
You can hear Patrick Ness speaking about The Knife of Never Letting Go, about children’s literature today and that little kerfuffle raised by Frank Cottrell Boyce on the Guardian news site.
The second of the trilogy, The Ask And The Answer, is due for release in May 2009. Bring it on!
October 1st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Tut, tut, Mike. You have obviously been far too busy to read the Fiction Focus blog - Patrick’s Prize was blogged there on 25 September :-)
But I do agree with ’sort of’ for newspapers over here.
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:26 am
I know, I know…but we made a decision not to take the laptop on holiday. Getting beach sand out of keyboard is such a hassle!