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Noughts and Crosses Series

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    Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking, award winning series charts the lives and loves of generations as it takes on race and equality with breath-taking drama and heart wrenching sadness. Set in an alternate reality, where the inferior Noughts live as second class citizens in a world run by Crosses, the four books explore the violent politics of a unstable world, and the ordinary lives caught up in in its terror. Beginning with Noughts and Crosses - and the romance of Seph and Callum - and ending with Double Cross, it is a gripping sequence, and an important, relevant story for our time.

    All the Noughts and Crosses books in order:-

    Book 1: Noughts and Crosses (2001)
    Book 2: Knife Edge (2004)
    Book 3: Checkmate (2005)
    Book 4: Double Cross (2008)
    Book 5: Crossfire (2019)
    Book 6: Endgame (2021)

    Novella: An Eye for An Eye (2003)
    Graphic Novel: Noughts and Crosses (2015)
    Novella: Nought Forever (2019)

    Book 1
    Book 1

    Noughts & Crosses

    Now a major TV series on the BBC'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me jus... More

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    Book 2
    Book 2

    Knife Edge

    'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling coul... More

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    Book 3
    Book 3

    Checkmate

    'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling coul... More

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    Book 4
    Book 4

    Double Cross

    'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling coul... More

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    Book 5
    Book 5

    An Eye for an Eye

    Can two wrongs ever make a right? Sephy is a Cross - the daughter of a top politician and a member of the ruling class. ... More

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    Book 6
    Book 6

    Crossfire

    Nominated for the Costa Children's Book Award'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and ... More

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    Book 7
    Book 7

    Endgame: The final book in the groundbreaking series, Noughts & Crosses

    The first Nought Prime Minister, Toney Durbridge, is about to go on trial for the murder of notorious ganglord, Dan Jeav... More

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    Book 8
    Book 8

    Noughts & Crosses Graphic Novel

    The iconic love story in graphic novel form.'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and s... More

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    Book 9
    Book 9

    Nought Forever: World Book Day 2019

    A powerful new Noughts & Crosses story from legendary author Malorie Blackman, written for World Book Day 2019 ... More

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