The first novel of Blackman’s acclaimed series, of which there are now six, was written nearly two decades ago. Its story of star-crossed lovers though – a Romeo and Juliet-type story set in ...

Malorie Blackman was born in Merton, London, in February 1962 to Barbadian parents who were part of the Windrush generation. She studied computer science at Thames Polytechnic and became a systems ...

Blackman, author of the Noughts And Crosses ... their lives reflected in the literature they are tasked to read Author Malorie Blackman Teachers reported to researchers that the choice of texts ...

More “inclusive and diverse” contemporary stories should be included in the English literature curriculum, author Malorie Blackman has said. Blackman, author of the Noughts And Crosses series ...