Explosively page-turning, dramatic and full of relevance for our world today, Double Cross is Malorie Blackman's fourth novel in the award-winning Noughts and Crosses sequence.
MALORIE BLACKMAN is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. She has won many awards for her books for the Random House list, including the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice -and the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. Her work has also appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial.In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books.
"Few writers can sustain a plot as well as Malorie Blackman"
*Sunday Telegraph*
"The danger of being sucked into and destroyed by this violent
world is brilliantly handled by Blackman . . . Blackman hangs an
old story on a modern frame with terrific resonance"
*Inis*
"Blackman gets people, especially young adults, in all their
tentativeness, determination and energy. She gets humanity as a
whole, too. Most of all she writes a stonking good story"
*Carousel*
"This is a highly intelligent thriller with important things to
say, and once again the distance between Blackman's imagined world
and present-day inner city is beautifully judged. It deserves, and
will find, a wide teenage readership"
*The School Librarian*
"It fizzes with strong emotion and grips with its authenticity, a
highly-skilled piece of writing by a writer with all the right
instincts . . . Gutsy, spot-on and relevant . . . and shocking too.
A great read"
*Chichester Observer*
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