Noughts & Crosses Series.

It A Page On Malorie Blackman's Website About Noughts And Crosses Series

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Malorie talks about Noughts and Crosses the first book of the series.

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Excerpt:
What is it about?

Checkmate concludes the story of Callum, Sephy and their daughter, Callie Rose. It paints a picture of the present using the past as a palate. How's that for arty-farty alliteration!! To be more serious for a moment, with this book I tried to show how the past has influenced the present for a number of people.

The book is called Checkmate because I wanted to have a number of confrontations taking place - the two major ones are between Jude (Callum's brother) and Jasmine (Sephy's mum) and between Sephy and her daughter, Callie Rose. I wanted a sense...

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Knife edge

- A Book Of Hate
Why did Jude do what he did to Cara?

Jude (Callum's brother) is a man who has let hatred and bitterness rule his life. Cara is his last chance to rejoin the human race. He has a choice to make and he makes it. And then he has to live with the consequences of that choice.

Why does Callum write that letter to Sephy?

All is revealed in Checkmate.

What happens to Callie Rose at the end of the book?

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- A Book Of Love
"Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination."
A number of people have stated that Noughts and Crosses is based on Romeo and Juliet. It may well be, but I promise that when I sat down to write the story, that's not what I was thinking (at least not consciously). As I wrote the story however, I became aware of the parallels between them. Some aspects of the plot are quite close - like the letter that never reaches its intended recipient. Other aspects were more accidental - like the balcony scene!