‘ The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time & showed me just how amazing story-telling could be’ STORMZY ‘I grew up reading her. It was one of the few books about black people, so I felt seen.’ 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 No one could begin to guess at the depth of the hatred I held for Sephy Hadley. Everything began with her & my brother. & that’s how it would end. Where there has been love, now there is hate. Two families have been shattered by the divided & violent society they live in. Sephy Hadley – a Cross, supposedly powerful & privileged – has bound herself forever to her nought lover Callum Mc Gregor’s family. But Jude Mc Gregor blames Sephy for all the tragedies his family has suffered. & he is determined to force her to take sides, & destroy her life... just like she destroyed his... Voted as one of the UK’s best-loved books, Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses series is a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic.