{"product_id":"noughts-crosses-25th-anniversary-hardback","title":"Noughts \u0026 Crosses: 25th Anniversary Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelebrate twenty-five years of Noughts \u0026amp; Crosses with this beautiful, luxe special edition, including a new foreword from Stormzy, and two stunning pieces of endpaper artwork from artists Juliet Nneka and Christopher Taylor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The Noughts \u0026amp; Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be' STORMZY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Malorie's Noughts \u0026amp; Crosses series is the first time I saw myself in a book . . . they were pacey, exciting, rich. What Malorie Blackman has always done so brilliantly is put the minority front and centre, both in society and politics.' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The most original book I've ever read' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Malorie Blackman is absolutely amazing ... [Noughts \u0026amp; Crosses] really spoke to me, especially as a woman of dual heritage.\" ZAWE ASHTON\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSephy is a Cross: she lives a life of privilege and power. But she's lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCallum is a nought: he's considered to be less than nothing - a blanker, there to serve Crosses - but he dreams of a better life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey've been friends since they were children, and they both know that's as far as it can ever go. Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies - love is out of the question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut this is love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger . . . and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVoted as one of the UK's best-loved books, Malorie Blackman's Noughts \u0026amp; Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENG01","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57656907923836,"sku":"9780241817735","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0088\/7855\/5193\/files\/MalorieBlackman_10.png?v=1791834513","url":"https:\/\/shop.southbankcentre.co.uk\/products\/noughts-crosses-25th-anniversary-hardback","provider":"Southbank Centre Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}