NOUGHTS AND CROSSES-MALORIE

Now a major TV series on the BBC’The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be’ STORMZY’Malorie’s Noughts & Crosses series is the first time I saw myself in a book

they were pacey, exciting, rich

What Malorie Blackman has always done so brilliantly is put the minority front and centre, both in society and politics.’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS ‘The most original book I’ve ever read’ BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH “Malorie Blackman is absolutely amazing ..

[Noughts & Crosses] really spoke to me, especially as a woman of dual heritage.” ZAWE ASHTON_____’Stop it! You’re all behaving like animals! Worse than animals – like blankers!’Sephy is a Cross: she lives a life of privilege and power

But she’s lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her

Callum is a nought: he’s considered to be less than nothing – a blanker, there to serve Crosses – but he dreams of a better life

They’ve been friends since they were children, and they both know that’s as far as it can ever go

Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies – love is out of the question

Then – in spite of a world that is fiercely against them – these star-crossed lovers choose each other

But this is love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger

and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come

Voted as one of the UK’s best-loved books, Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic.