The iconic love story in graphic novel form.'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 isa Cross: she lives a life of privilege and power. But she's lonely,andburns 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'vebeen friends since they were children,and they both know that's as faras 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. Butthis is love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger . .. and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come. Votedas one of the UK's best-loved books,Malorie Blackman's Noughts &Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic.
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKISBN: 9780857531957Number of pages: 208Weight: 461 gDimensions: 230 x 156 x 18 mm
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"An incredible novel that is as heart-rending as it is provocative."-The Bookseller
Malorie Blackman
An award-winning British author and dramatist,Malorie Blackman is a major voice in children's publishing,holding the post of Waterstones Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She is best-known for her bestselling novels Noughts & Crosses series as well as Pig Heart Boy,Thief, Cloud Busting,Boys Don't Cry and Chasing the Stars. The fifth novel in the Noughts & Crosses series,Crossfire,will be published in August 2019.
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