Malorie Blackman

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1990
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Noughts & Crosses

1 - Noughts & Crosses // Black & White (Feb-2001)
1.5 - Callum (Apr-2012)
2 - Knife Edge (Mar-2004)
3 - Checkmate (Aug-2005)
4 - Double Cross (Nov-2008)

Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • Not so Stupid

  • A New Dress for Maya

  • Girl Wonder and the Terrific Twins

  • Trust Me

    When Heather goes on holiday with Andrew she gets more than she bargained for. Not only does he dump her, but when she meets up with him his excuse is that he was coming to terms with being a vampire! Heather does love him, and now he wants them to b...

  • Space Race

    Five...four...three...two...one. Lift-off!What can Lizzie do when big-headed Jake challenges her to a race in space? She's GOT to beat him. But Jake has a super-duper, deluxe new spaceship that runs on special fuel...Zoom to Pluto and back with this ...

  • Pig-heart Boy

    Accept a transplant of a pig's heart, or die? That's what Cameron has to decide ...The story: Cameron is offered the chance to have a highly experimental and controversial operation which might save his life. But replacing his heart with one from a p...

  • Noughts & Crosses // Black & White

    Noughts & Crosses - 1

    Two star-crossed lovers fight for a more just world in this searing novel with a critically-acclaimed BBC series adaptation now streaming on NBCUniversal’s Peacock platform!Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege...

  • Sinclair, Wonder Bear

    Sinclair is no ordinary teddy bear. At night, when his owner Emily is fast asleep, he becomes a Wonder Bear, flying all over the world, and magically changing himself into new materials to save people in danger. One night he's a very busy bear indeed...

  • Dead Gorgeous

    When the mysterious stranger shows up at Nova's parents' hotel, she thinks her luck has changed - until she realizes she's the only one who can see him.Liam explains he's been here a long time. And he can never leave, no matter how hard he tries.Soon...



  • Hacker

  • Dangerous Reality

    Dominic is fascinated by the world of virtual reality, with its potential for smoothing out the difficulties of the real world. His mum, a scientist, develops an amazing VR system but a strange fault sends the new system haywire. Is someone trying to...

  • Thief!

    You're the new girl in school. You're just trying to fit in - and it's not working. Then someone accuses you of theft, and you think things can't get any worse. Until you get caught in a freak storm . . .The next thing you know, you're in the future....

  • Knife Edge

    Noughts & Crosses - 2

    Persephone Hadley is six months pregnant with a mixed-race baby. In their society this fact alone will threaten the child's life every day. To make matters worse, the baby's father, Callum, is dead. He was hanged for terrorism months ago, but ...

  • The Monster Crisp-Guzzler

    At her new school, Mira discovers she has a very unusual teacher - a teacher who turns into a real-life dragon when she eats crisps! This comes in very handy when the class run into trouble on a school trip to the seaside......

  • A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E.

    It’s a normal Friday evening for Elliot -- until the police knock on the door and tell him his mum’s in serious trouble! A security video clearly shows her breaking into a giant pharmaceutical company on behalf of the environmental action gr...

  • Ellie, and the Cat!

    Ellie is the rudest, most spoilt child her grandma has ever met. So Grandma decides to teach her a lesson and switches Ellie's body with Jolly the cat's. As she starts to make friends with the other animals in the house, the mice and the spiders, Ell...

  • Checkmate

    Noughts & Crosses - 3

    Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a Nought father in a society where the pale-skinned Noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mothe...

  • The Deadly Dare Mysteries

    In Deadly Dare , there's a new craze at Theo and Ricky's school. The rules are simple: write a dare, put it in the bag and take turns to pick one out. But on the night Ricky does his dare and enters the deserted warehouse, he disappears. What real...

  • Tell Me No Lies



  • Hostage

  • Jessica Strange

    Jessica Strange doesn t look like her brothers and sisters. She begins to suspect that she is not a mouse and goes on a tour of the farmyard to see if any of the other animals can help her out. Madam Butterfly thinks she must be a cow as she has four...

  • The Bumper Book of Betsey Biggalow

    This is the second book of stories about the lively Betsey Biggalow and her day to day life on a West Indian island. While full of humour and the stuff of everyday life, Malorie Blackman paints a lively and evocative portrait of rural life on a tropi...

  • Jack Sweettooth

    Jackson Winstanley Sweettooth (or Jack for short) is a mouse who lives with Matthew and the rest of the Bailey family. He gets the blame for a lot of things - Mrs Bailey thinks he's swallowed her ruby and nibbled at Shani's birthday cake. And...

  • Double Cross

    Noughts & Crosses - 4

  • Snow Dog

    ""IT'S GOING TO BE WOOF-ONDERFUL!"There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don't want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better, he h"...

  • Boys Don't Cry

    This is the explosively page-turning new novel for teenagers from the author of the award-winning "Noughts and Crosses" sequence. You're about to receive your A-level results and then a future of university and journalism awaits. But the day they're ...

  • Unheard Voices

    In March 1807, the British Parliament passed an Act making the trading and transportation of slaves illegal. It was many years before slavery, as it was known then, was abolished, and slavery still continues today in different ways, but it was a big ...

  • Operation Gadgetman!

    Beans calls her dad 'Gadgetman' because of the weird and wonderful gadgets he comes up with - everything from exploding biscuits to Spy Kits. But when Gadgetman accidentally invents a device that could be used to steal millions of pounds, the wrong p...

  • Cloud Busting

    Davey is the new boy in class and Sam can't stand him. He thinks Davey is a Grade A moron. But when the two are thrown together Sam discovers that Davey's eccentric way of looking at the world makes life a lot more fun. Until the day something terrib...



  • Aesop's Fables

    A singing ant, a silly wolf and a mighty mouse are just some of the characters in this mini collection of everyone's favourite fables. After all, it's never too late to learn a new moral or two! This story is a magic bean. It may not look much lik...

  • Callum

    Noughts & Crosses - 1.5

    A powerful short story featuring Sephy and Callum, stars of the original dystopian bestseller, Noughts and Crosses. First released exclusively for World Book Day 2012. ...

  • Jon for Short

  • The Ripple Effect

    Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord.When the TARDIS lands on Skaro, the Seventh...

  • Noble Conflict

    Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city walls, a vicious band of rebels are plotting to tear this peace apart. It is up to the Guardians - an elite peacek...

  • I Want a Cuddle!

    Little Rabbit needs a cuddle - QUICK! - so she sets off through the forest to find the perfect hug. But some cuddles are too prickly and some are too tickly, so just who will give her the hug she needs? A warm story in which Little Rabbit discovers t...

  • Betsey Biggalow is Here!

    Betsey Biggalow is here! She may be small but she's full of bright and shiny ideas about new trainers, winning at marbles and even helping the world! Join Betsey on four short, sun-filled adventures as she learns you don't have to be big to make a bi...

  • Betsey's Birthday Surprise

    Join Betsey, the little girl with big ideas, as she surprises everyone on her birthday, learns to be a guard dog, moves house and even becomes a TV star in these four warm and funny adventures. This book is one of five short story collections featu...

  • Magic Betsey

    Betsey puts on a magic show but everyone is less than impressed with her tricks. No matter, in these four sweet and funny short stories, Betsey learns the importance of believing in yourself, that practise makes perfect, and that some magic is real ....

  • Hurricane Betsey



  • Robot Girl

    A futuristic drama full of suspense from the award-winning Malorie Blackman. What do you do when your dad has created a monster? That's Claire's dilemma when her father reveals the latest project in his lab. It's hideous â€" but can Claire bring hers...

  • Contact

    A futuristic drama about human interaction. From the former UK Children''s Laureate, Malorie Blackman.In a post-apocalyptic world where everyone wears Non-Contact suits to survive, where you can never touch another person directly, and only virtual r...

  • 12 Doctors 12 Stories

    Twelve bestselling authors, twelve Doctors, twelve brilliant adventures in time and space for all Doctor Who fans! This collection features all twelve original Doctor Who eshort stories, covering each of the twelve Doctors and written by a selection ...

  • Peace Maker

  • Sinclair the Wonder Bear

    Sinclair is no ordinary teddy bear. At night, when his owner Emily is fast asleep, he becomes a Wonder Bear, flying all over the world, and magically changing himself into new materials to save people in danger. One night, he's a very busy bear indee...

  • Chasing the Stars

    Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are heading alone back to Earth following the virus that completely wiped out the rest of their crew, and their family, in its entirety.Nathan's ship is heading in the opposite direction. But on the journey it is ...

  • Grandpa Bert and the Ghost Snatchers

    Grandma Gertie is rather strange. With her big square glasses and a parrot on her hat, Anna and Kasper don't know what to make of her. But Grandma's got a secret... Grandpa Bert is a ghost and he's travelled all the way from Barbados squished inside ...

  • A Dangerous Game

    An exciting school trip goes horribly wrong in this thrilling adventure from master storyteller Malorie Blackman.Although Sam has a long-term illness, all he wants is the chance to lead a normal life. So he is thrilled when he finally gets his mum an...

  • Crossfire

    Nominated for the Costa Children''s Book Award

    ''The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be'' STORMZY

    ''Malorie''s Noughts & Crosses series is the ...

  • Blueblood



  • Betsey Biggalow the Detective

  • Endgame

  • Girl Wonder to the Rescue

  • Girl Wonder's Winter Adventures

  • Love Hurts

  • Nought Forever

  • The Stuff of Nightmares

  • We're Going to Find the Monster

    A rip-roaring picture book adventure from superstar pairing Malorie Blackman and Dapo Adeola.


    Over the shimmering ocean, up the huge, high mountain, through the deep, dark forest . . . WE''RE GOING TO FIND THE MONSTER!


    Join two ...

  • My Friend's A Gris-Kwok

    Malorie Blackman’s hilarious tale of shape-shifting and babysitting antics â€" now in a standard paperback format for middle-grade readers.Malorie Blackman’s hilarious tale of shape-shifting and babysitting antics â€" now in a standard paperback ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Malorie Blackman has published 58 books.

Malorie Blackman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, My Friend's A Gris-Kwok, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Malorie Blackman, Not so Stupid, was published in November 1990.

Yes. Malorie Blackman has 1 series.
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