Noughts & Crosses

Malorie Blackman’s landmark young-adult novel imagines a society split between the ruling dark-skinned Crosses and the oppressed light-skinned noughts, and follows Sephy and Callum, two friends from opposite sides who fall in love across the divide. Powerful and unflinching, it uses a reversed racial order to explore prejudice, power, and injustice, and became a defining book for a generation of readers.