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Crossfire
Noughts and Crosses (Related to this series)
- Author
- Malorie Blackman
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publish Date
- 13 August 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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Crossfire is the long-awaited new novel in legendary author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses series - perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power.
Thirty-four years have passed since Sephy Hadley - a Cross - first met Callum McGregor - a nought. Their love was forbidden, powerful - and deadly.
Life is seemingly very different now for noughts and Crosses - including for Sephy and Callum's families. But old wounds from the past are hard to heal, and when you're playing a game as dangerous as they are, it won't be long before someone gets caught in the crossfire.
Praise for Noughts & Crosses:
'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be' - Stormzy
'The most original book I've ever read' Benjamin Zephaniah
'Blackman "gets" people . . . she "gets" humanity as a whole, too' Guardian
'Powerful' Sunday Times
Crossfire is the long-awaited new novel in legendary author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses series - perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power.
Thirty-four years have passed since Sephy Hadley - a Cross - first met Callum McGregor - a nought. Their love was forbidden, powerful - and deadly.
Life is seemingly very different now for noughts and Crosses - including for Sephy and Callum's families. But old wounds from the past are hard to heal, and when you're playing a game as dangerous as they are, it won't be long before someone gets caught in the crossfire.
Praise for Noughts & Crosses:
'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be' - Stormzy
'The most original book I've ever read' Benjamin Zephaniah
'Blackman "gets" people . . . she "gets" humanity as a whole, too' Guardian
'Powerful' Sunday Times
Critics Review
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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
Juno Dawson, author of Clean and Meat Market
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Rich in moral and social issues, it is devastating about racial attitudes
The Sunday Times, Children's Book of the Week
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[Malorie Blackman] is a supremely suspenseful writer . . . [a] nail-biting drama
Daily Telegraph
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Blackman is great at explosive love-hate relationships . . . [and] also has a talent for producing relatable characters, gutsy dialogue and page-turning action. Crossfire is a cracking story that fans of the series will love.
Guardian
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The fast-paced drama will resonate with internet-era teens - and there's more to come
Daily Mail
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The cliffhanger ending will leave fans desperately awaiting the next instalment
Mail on Sunday - 'Must-Read Books of the Year'
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It chillingly echoes the tempestuous taste of the world today while offering the intensity of a thriller
i newspaper
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Once again, in her latest book Crossfire, Blackman captures the uncomfortably familiar zeitgeist
Stylist.co.uk
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Ingeniously flips the race issue . . . it's a brilliant inversion, with myriad tiny details that constantly illuminate the grinding effect of blind prejudice
Financial Times
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This tense tale is about love, friendship, sex, power and corruption . . . Rich in moral and social issues
Sunday Times Ireland
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Details
- Author
- Malorie Blackman
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 8 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 August 2019
- ISBN
- 9780241391792
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Alternative history fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. Crossfire is the long-awaited new novel in legendary author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses series - perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power.Thirty-four years have passed since Sephy Hadley - a Cross - first met Callum McGregor - a nought. Their love was forbidden, powerful - and deadly. Life is seemingly very different now for noughts and Crosses - including for Sephy and Callum's families. But old wounds from the past are hard to heal, and when you're playing a game as dangerous as they are, it won't be long before someone gets caught in the crossfire.Praise for Noughts & Crosses:'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be' - Stormzy'The most original book I've ever read' Benjamin Zephaniah'Blackman "gets" people . . . she "gets" humanity as a whole, too' Guardian'Powerful' Sunday TimesCrossfire is the long-awaited new novel in legendary author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses series - perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power.Thirty-four years have passed since Sephy Hadley - a Cross - first met Callum McGregor - a nought. Their love was forbidden, powerful - and deadly. Life is seemingly very different now for noughts and Crosses - including for Sephy and Callum's families. But old wounds from the past are hard to heal, and when you're playing a game as dangerous as they are, it won't be long before someone gets caught in the crossfire.Praise for Noughts & Crosses:'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be' - Stormzy'The most original book I've ever read' Benjamin Zephaniah'Blackman "gets" people . . . she "gets" humanity as a whole, too' Guardian'Powerful' Sunday Times
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