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BIOGRAPHY Malorie Blackman (b. February 8 , 1962 ) went to a Peckham grammar school. She wanted to be an English teacher. Her parents split up when she was 13. Malorie married Neil, who is Scottish, in 1981 and their daughter Elizabeth (Lizzie for short)was born in 1996. Malorie Blackman has been on the receiving end of racism both because she is black and because Lizzie is of mixed race. 'Not So Stupid', Malorie Blackman's first book, was published in November 1990 and she has since written over 50 books, the most well known being the Noughts and Crosses series. She has also written TV scripts including Byker Grove and Whizziwig episodes and the first four episodes of Pig Heart Boy. Before writing Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman was known for writing novels featuring the main characters being black but where their race was not relevant to the plot of the story, such as Pig Heart Boy. She decided to write a story making black people the dominant, ruling class after needing a plaster one day and being struck that the only ones available were pink, designed to blend into white skin. Noughts and Crosses was rated number 61 in the BBC's Big Read Top 100 books, making Malorie Blackman the only black author to feature in the top 100. Noughts and Crosses is dedicated to Elizabeth and Neil, her daughter and husband, respectively. BOOK LIST
NOUGHTS AND CROSSES SERIES Noughts and Crosses A Book of Love Persephone Hadley (a Cross/Black person) and Callum McGregor (a Nought/White person) have known each other since childhood, but their different races, as well as their positions in society, stand in the way of their developing relationship, and gradually ruin every hope of them being together as they grow older. Sephy becomes a drunk, taking after her mother; she escapes to a boarding school called Chivers to leave her old life behind, while Callum joins a terrorist organisation called Liberation Militia. When he is forced to kidnap Sephy, they make love and she becomes pregnant, with a child hoped to be called Callie Rose, after the rose gardens in Sephys garden. When her father, a leading politician, finds out, he disowns Sephy and forces her to make a terrible decision- to sacrifice either Callum's life or her child's. In the end will both of their choices be the same... Who will live and who will die? Knife Edge A Book Of Hate The second of the Noughts and Crosses trilogy. Sephy has now had Callum's daughter, Callie Rose, but Callum's brother Jude is determined to destroy Sephy's life - by any means necessary. When Jude is convicted of murdering his Cross friend, Cara, will Sephy be forced to take sides again? She struggles to make a living and cope with post-natal depression–- which results in her nearly killing Callie. Checkmate A Book Of Hope The third and final book of the trilogy. Callie Rose struggles with growing up as a 'halfer', and when she learns the truth about her nought fathers life from her friend Tobey, she grows angry with Sephy for hiding the truth and decides to follow Callum's path. Sephy feels trapped and rejects an offer from her boyfriend Sonny when he asks to marry her, causing Callie to withdraw into Jude's clutches, where he starts to groom her into being a suicide bomber, in order to murder Sephy's father, Kamal Hadley. An Eye For An Eye A short novella that gives an insight to the events in Knife Edge and why they happen. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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