‘The most original book I’ve ever read’ BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH.
‘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.
“Malorie Blackman is absolutely amazing … [Noughts & Crosses] really spoke to me, especially as a woman of dual heritage.” ZAWE ASHTON.
Voted as one of the UK’s best-loved books and now a major BBC TV series, Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction — a true modern classic.
Sephy is a Cross: privileged, powerful, and surrounded by comfort — yet lonely, and burning with a sense of injustice she can’t quite name. Callum is a nought: dismissed as less than nothing, a blanker destined to serve, who dares to dream of something more. Childhood friends, they have always known the world would never allow them to be anything else. Noughts and Crosses are fated enemies — love between them is unthinkable. But in defiance of a society fiercely ranged against them, Sephy and Callum choose each other. It is a choice that will pull them into terrible danger, and send shockwaves through generations to come. ‘Stop it! You’re all behaving like animals! Worse than animals – like blankers!’
ISBN 13: 9780141378640
Author: Malorie Blackman
