Malorie Blackman

Now a major TV series on the BBC '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 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.

From the award-winning author of Noughts & Crosses, comes an adventure for 5-7 year olds. Discover FOUR stories in one book. Have no fear, Betsey Biggalow is here! In this collection of stories, Betsey has lots of big ideas for her big adventures! Join her as she:Surprises everyone on her birthdayLearns to be a ferocious guard dogMoves to a new houseBecomes a TV superstar!This collection of mini adventures by the beloved Malorie Blackman is perfect to share, or for newly independent readers to read alone."Perfect for young readers who are beginning to gain confidence in reading independently" - Book TrustAlso available in the Betsey Biggalow series: Betsey Biggalow Is Here! Betsey Biggalow The Detective Magic Betsey Hurricane Betsey

From the award-winning author of Noughts & Crosses, comes an adventure for 5-7 year olds. Discover FOUR stories in one book. Have no fear, Betsey Biggalow is here! In this collection of stories, Betsey has lots of big ideas for her big adventures! Join her as:She puts on a magic show that doesn’t quite go to planBetsey learns the importance of believing in yourselfShe learns that practise makes perfectBetsey realises that some magic is real…This collection of mini adventures by the beloved Malorie Blackman is perfect to share, or for newly independent readers to read alone."Perfect for young readers who are beginning to gain confidence in reading independently" - Book TrustAlso available in the Betsey Biggalow series: Betsey Biggalow Is Here! Betsey Biggalow The Detective Betsey's Birthday Surprise Hurricane Betsey

Celebrating 85 years of Sparking ImaginationsA beautiful clothbound edition of the much-loved modern classic Pig-Heart Boy. Bound in real cloth with two coloured foils and sprayed coloured edges, this deluxe edition is a perfect gift or collector’s item. Part of an eight book set published to mark the 85th anniversary of Puffin Books, this edition has a brand-new foreword from Adam Kay.All Cameron wants is a 'normal' life - friends, swimming, school, family.But most normal thirteen-year-olds don't desperately need a new heart because theirs doesn't work properly.One doctor offers hope. Cameron could - if he and his parents agree - take part in a radical and controversial procedure involving the transplant of a pig's heart into his human body. It's risky. And it's never been done before . . .While Cameron comes to terms with the idea, he finds the world around him is much, much less accepting. But surely everyone will understand that it's better to have a pig's heart that works than a human heart that doesn't - won't they . . .?Collect all eight titles in the Puffin Clothbound 85th Anniversary CollectionTHE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER by Jacqueline Wilson with a foreword by Beth LincolnDIARY OF A WIMPY KID by Jeff Kinney with a foreword by Dapo AdeolaCHARLOTTE’S WEB by E.B. White with a foreword by Jordan LeesMATILDA by Roald Dahl with a foreword by Robin StevensTHE EXTREMELY EMBARRASSING LIFE OF LOTTIE BROOKS by Katie Kirby with a foreword by Nadia ShireenPERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF by Rick Riordan with a foreword by Nazneen Ahmed PathakPIG-HEART BOY by Malorie Blackman with a foreword by Adam KayWONDER by R.J. Palacio with a foreword by Tom Fletcher

From the award-winning author of Noughts & Crosses, comes an adventure for 5-7 year olds. Discover FOUR stories in one book. Have no fear, Betsey Biggalow is here! In this collection of stories, Betsey has lots of big ideas for her big adventures! Join her as:A hurricane is on its way, that Betsey can’t wait forShe helps prepare for the stormShe is entered into a very strange contest…She even attempts to eat a MONSTER hamburger!This collection of mini adventures by the beloved Malorie Blackman is perfect to share, or for newly independent readers to read alone."Perfect for young readers who are beginning to gain confidence in reading independently" - Book TrustAlso available in the Betsey Biggalow series: Betsey Biggalow Is Here! Betsey Biggalow The Detective Betsey's Birthday Surprise Magic Betsey

'I used to love swimming. Won medals for it. But when your heart has been affected by an infection it's like having a ticking time bomb inside you… tick… tick… tick… tick…' Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is to be normal – have friends, go to school, and dive to the bottom of his local swimming pool. But he desperately needs a heart transplant and time is running out. When he's finally offered a new heart, Cameron must choose between a pig's heart that works… or a human heart that doesn't. How far will he go to get his life back? Malorie Blackman's celebrated novel Pig Heart Boy was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and adapted by the BBC into a BAFTA Award-winning TV series. This stage adaptation by Winsome Pinnock was directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu and first performed in 2025 at the Unicorn Theatre, London, in a co-production between Unicorn Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and Children's Theatre Partnership. 'A powerful story about friendship, loyalty and family' Guardian on the novel Pig Heart Boy

From the award-winning author of Noughts & Crosses, comes an adventure for 5-7 year olds. "Perfect for young readers who are beginning to gain confidence in reading independently" - Book TrustDiscover FOUR stories in one book. Have no fear, Betsey Biggalow is here! In this collection of stories, Betsey has lots of big ideas for her big adventures! Join her as:She gets new trainers – but not ones as nice as her best friend MayDoesn’t quite have the perfect Saturday she wantedGets in over her head in a game of marblesAND has to help where she didn’t expect to!This collection of mini adventures by the beloved Malorie Blackman is perfect to share, or for newly independent readers to read alone.Also available in the Betsey Biggalow series: Betsey Biggalow The Detective Betsey's Birthday Surprise Magic Betsey Hurricane Betsey

From the award-winning author of Noughts & Crosses, comes another adventure for 5-7 year olds. Discover FOUR stories in one book. Have no fear, Betsey Biggalow is here! In this collection of stories, Betsey has lots of big ideas for her big adventures!In these stories, join her as she:REALLY wants to ride her big sister’s big bikeMakes her first ever kite!Puts on the best show in the whole worldAND has to become detective to find her missing teddyThis collection of mini adventures by the beloved Malorie Blackman is perfect to share, or for newly independent readers to read alone."Perfect for young readers who are beginning to gain confidence in reading independently" - Book TrustAlso available in the Betsey Biggalow series: Betsey Biggalow Is Here! Betsey's Birthday Surprise Magic Betsey Hurricane Betsey

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.Malorie Blackman OBE is one of Britain's best loved and most widely-read writers. For over thirty years, her books have helped to shape British culture, and inspired generations of younger readers and writers. The Noughts and Crosses series, started in 2000, sparked a new and necessary conversation about race and identity in the UK, and are already undisputed classics of twenty-first-century children's literature.She is also a writer whose own life has been shaped by books, from her childhood in south London, the daughter of parents who moved to Britain from Barbados as part of the Windrush Generation, and who experienced a childhood that was both wonderful and marred by the everyday racism and bigotry of the era. She was told she could not apply to study her first love, literature, at university, in spite of her academic potential, but found a way to books and to a life in writing against a number of obstacles.This book is an account of that journey, from a childhood surrounded by words, to the 83 rejection letters she received in response to sending out her first project, to the children's laureateship. It explores the books who have made her who she is, and the background to some the most beloved and powerful children's stories of today. It is an illuminating, inspiring and empowering account of the power of words to change lives, and the extraordinary life story of one of the world's greatest writers.

Pisateli Anglii Young Adult V alternativnom mire obschestvo podeleno na dva klassa: temnokozhikh Krestov i belykh nulej. Seffi i Kallum druzhat s detstva - i vskore ikh druzhba pererastaet v nechto bolshee. Vot tolko oni pozvolit ne mogut pozvolit sebe projavljat eti chuvstva. Seffi - doch vysokopostavlennogo chinovnika iz vlastvujuschego klassa Krestov. Kallum - paren iz nizshego klassa nulej, byvshikh rabov. V mire, polnom predubezhdenij, nedoverija i klassovoj borby, ikh svjaz zapretna i riskovanna. Osobenno kogda Kalluma nachinajut podozrevat v tom, chto on svjazan s Osvoboditelnym Opolcheniem, kotoroe stremitsja svergnut pravjaschuju verkhushku.

'It's very candid, and movingly so.... Not only in Blackman a grafter- even more, and in the face of more, than we already knew. She's someone with whom you do not mess. Good on her. She's earned it' The Telegraph Malorie Blackman is one of Britain's best and most beloved children's authors, the landmark Noughts & Crosses series included amongst her many books. Her journey to becoming a writer was a long one, but throughout it all she retained a sense of wonder and humour. Before her BAFTA award wins, her OBE and appointment as Children's Laureate in 2013, Malorie was a young girl from South London who fell in love with books and found a home in her local library and a world of words at her fingertips. From embracing her alternative way of seeing the world and all its fascinating differences and possibilities; to her desire to share that passion with others by becoming an English teacher but being told no by her careers advisor because of her race; to the doctor who told her she would be dead by thirty when she was diagnosed with sickle cell, and the eighty plus rejection letters she received from publishers before her first ever children's book was published. Her life's journey - has been an eventful one - marked by trauma, trials, and triumph, yet in spite of all the many setbacks in her life, she held fastidiously on to her dream of becoming a writer.Malorie charts her life not in a succinct order of events, but against the principles which have motivated her journey and reasons for becoming a writer - wonder, loss, anger, perseverance, representation, and love. Each tenet has played a unique role in inspiring her writing, her deep resolve and infectious zest for life.Through this lens of extraordinary experiences Malorie offers insight into the nature of growing up in post-war Britain, why we must protect the arts, the fraught navigation of our healthcare system, and surviving structural and societal racism.Funny, frank, and full of life lessons, Just Sayin' is the deeply personal and vividly compelling story of a natural storyteller, her incredible life which defied expectations and inspired a generation.

Malorie Blackman spins a hilarious tale of shape-shifting and babysitting antics. Mike had no idea that his best friend Alex was a Gris-kwok – someone who can turn into any animal he chooses! But Mike’s naughty little sister Molly is a Gris-kwok too. Alex and Mike are about to take on the worst babysitting job in the world! Particularly suitable for readers aged 7+ with a reading age of 7.

A rip-roaring picture book adventure from superstar pairing Malorie Blackman and Dapo Adeola.Over the shimmering ocean, up the huge, high mountain, through the deep, dark forest . . . WE'RE GOING TO FIND THE MONSTER!Join two intrepid adventurers as their imaginations transform their house into a wild wonderland - and their big brother becomes a mighty monster. A joy to read-aloud with its cumulative refrain, and full of funny, relatable characters, this is a contemporary celebration of creativity, fantasy and family.Written by bestselling author of Noughts & Crosses, Malorie Blackman, this story was originally published as Marty Monster. This new version has been stunningly brought to life by the award-winning illustrator of Look Up!, Dapo Adeola.