Endgame Award-winning author by Malorie Blackman (author)

’Malorie’s Noughts & 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

‘The most original book I’ve ever read’ BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH

‘Malorie Blackman is absolutely amazing … [Noughts & Crosses] really spoke to me, especially as a woman of dual heritage.’ ZAWE ASHTON

A message from someone on behalf of Dan Jeavons . . . There was just one problem with that – Dan was dead. He’d been murdered and I was on the hook for it.

The first Nought Prime Minister, Tobey Durbridge, is about to go on trial for the murder of notorious ganglord, Dan Jeavons. Tobey insists he is being framed.

There were ten seats at Dan’s dinner party the night he was killed and each guest had their own reasons for wishing him dead.

Sephy Hadley was one of the guests that night. Haunted by the idea that she didn’t do enough to stop the death of her first love, Callum McGregor, Sephy will not sit quietly and wait for accusations to fall on her now. She has her children to protect.

It’s time that the truth is uncovered. Time for the endgame.

The searing conclusion to Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses series: one of the nation’s best-loved series; a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic.

Our September 2021 Teen Book of the Month

My September Book of the Month for Teens has to be Endgame by Malorie Blackman. 20 years after the ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses, it has all led to this. Relationships between Crosses & Noughts are no longer forbidden, but the life-changing story of Sephy and Callum has never been forgotten. People are more divided than ever – over race, politics and class. The first Nought Prime Minister, Tobey Durbridge, has been framed for murder, and Sephy under suspicion. Can Callie-Rose clear the names of both her former boyfriend and her mother? As they search for the truth, they unearth a lot more than they expected…

This powerful conclusion to the iconic Noughts & Crosses series could not be more anticipated, particularly following the cliffhanger ending of Crossfire. This series changed YA forever, and taught a generation to think and act differently. Following the BBC TV adaptation last year, it has garnered even more attention and fans, along with Malorie Blackman winning the lifetime achievement award from the YA Book Prize earlier this year. Now is the perfect time to re-read the whole series in anticipation of this finale!

Su – Book Club Editor, Ages 7–11+

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780241443996

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Date published

September 2nd, 2021

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.2; Upper years; 16.0 points

Other details

480 pages

Condition

New

Available in these packs

6books
Noughts & Crosses Book Set (Books 1-6)

eur prices

Offer price: €36.00

Rewards/RRP: €73.41

Author/Illustrator

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman has written over fifty books and is acknowledged as one of today’s most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. Her best-loved books include the highly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses sequence and Pig Heart Boy, which also became a major BBC TV series. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her work, including the Red House Children’s Book Award, and has also been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. In 2005 she was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children’s books, and in 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature. She has been described by The Times as ‘a national treasure’ and was the Children’s Laureate 2013-15.