Nominated for the Costa Children's Book Award<\/b><\/p>\n
'The Noughts & Crosses<\/i> series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be' <\/b>STORMZY<\/p>\n
'Malorie's Noughts & Crosses series is the first time I saw myself in a book . . . they were pacey, exciting, rich. <\/b>What Malorie Blackman has always done so brilliantly is put the minority front and centre, both in society and politics.'<\/b> CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS<\/p>\n
'The most original book I've ever read'<\/b> BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH<\/p>\n
'Malorie Blackman is absolutely amazing <\/i>… [Noughts & Crosses<\/i>] really spoke to me, especially as a woman of dual heritage.' <\/b>ZAWE ASHTON<\/p>\n
'Crossfire is searing, political and furious. Malorie's world building is sublime and the way the Noughts & Crosses series holds a mirror up to society is unrivalled' <\/b>JUNO DAWSON
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A sudden frisson of awareness crackled through me like a static shock.
‘Hello, Callie. What’s what?’
The baritone voice made my head snap up.
Tobey Durbridge.<\/i><\/p>\n
Years have passed since the love between Sephy – a Cross – and Callum – a Nought – destroyed their world and changed their families and society forever.<\/p>\n
Society appears to be very different now. For the first time ever, a Nought Prime Minister – Tobey Durbridge – is in power. Race and class don't divide people anymore. But things are never really that easy.<\/p>\n
Because Tobey's just been framed for murder, and the only way to free himself is to turn to his oldest friend – Callie-Rose.<\/p>\n
Their families divisions run deep, and when two young people are kidnapped, their lives and everything they've fought for are put in the firing line.<\/p>\n
And when you're playing a game as dangerous as this one, it won't be long before someone gets caught in the crossfire…<\/p>\n
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.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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