Malorie Blackman

Hi everyone and welcome to my bookshop page - with thanks to uk.bookshop.org.

I've written over 70 books for children and young adults, including the Noughts and Crosses series of novels (Noughts and Crosses won the Red House FCBG Children’s Book Award as well as being included in the top 100 of the BBC Big Read), Cloud Busting (winner of the Smarties Silver Award), Thief (winner of the Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award) and Hacker (winner of the WH Smiths Children's Book Award and the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award for best children's book of the year). 

Noughts and Crosses has also been made into a BBC TV series which was first broadcast in Spring 2020.

I am a scriptwriting graduate of the National Film and Television School and my work has appeared on TV, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA winning 6-part TV serial (I wrote the first 4 episodes).  As well as writing original and adapted drama scripts for TV, I also regularly wrote for CBBC's Byker Grove.  More recently I co-wrote Doctor Who: Rosa - about one of my all time heroines, Rosa Parks.

In 2005, I was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award.  In 2008, I was awarded an OBE for services to Children’s Literature.

I was appointed Children’s Laureate 2013-2015.

Along with Frank Cottrell Boyce, it's my pleasure to co-curate the children's selection of books for the book club - LoveMyRead.  

I am currently writing Endgame, the final book in the Noughts and Crosses series.   

For a more in depth profile, please visit my website:  www.malorieblackman.co.uk                                                                                                           

Happy reading!