<p><b>Nominated for the Costa Children's Book Award</b><br><b><br>'The <i>Noughts & Crosses</i> series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be' </b>STORMZY<br><br><b>'Malorie's Noughts & Crosses series is the first time I saw myself in a book . . . they were pacey, exciting, rich. </b><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<br><br> <b>'The most original book I've ever read'</b> BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH<br><br><b>'Malorie Blackman is absolutely <i>amazing </i>... [<i>Noughts & Crosses</i>] really spoke to me, especially as a woman of dual heritage.' </b>ZAWE ASHTON<br><br><b>'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<br>_____<br><br>Years have passed since the love between Sephy - a Cross - and Callum - a Nought - destroyed their world and changed their families and society forever. <br><br>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. <br><br>Because Tobey's just been framed for murder, and the only way to free himself is to turn to his oldest friend - Callie-Rose. <br><br>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. <br><br>And when you're playing a game as dangerous as this one, it won't be long before someone gets caught in the crossfire...<br><br><b><i>Crossfire is the long-awaited new novel in legendary author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking </i>Noughts & Crosses<i> series.</i></b><br><br><b>'Rich in moral and social issues, it is devastating about racial attitudes' </b>THE SUNDAY TIMES, CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK<br><br><b>'It chillingly echoes the tempestuous taste of the world today while offering the intensity of a thriller' </b>I NEWSPAPER</p>

Binding: Paperback;432 pages; Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK; Classification: Children?s / Teenage fiction and true stories; Weight: 356 g; Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 27

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