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 a 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.