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September 2024

  • An illustration from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.

    Book of the day
    The Haunted Wood: a History of Childhood Reading by Sam Leith review – young at heart

  • Malorie Blackman

    UK English curricula should focus on ‘inclusive and diverse’ stories, author says

January 2024

  • The library in the doll’s house, a 1:12 scale replica on an Edwardian residence, that was given as a gift from the nation to Queen Mary after the first world war.

    Tom Parker Bowles picked for mini library project championed by his mum

    Tom Parker Bowles among 21 writers providing snapshot of contemporary literature in initiative supported by the queen

November 2023

  • Malorie Blackman.

    Malorie Blackman’s career honoured in British Library exhibition

    Show dedicated to the prolific children’s and young adult novelist includes 82 rejection letters alongside her children’s laureate medal

August 2023

  • Benjamin Lewis and Asha Banks in the 2017 stage adaptation of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4.

    The last word
    ‘Pandora! I adore ya!’: the best descriptions of first love in literature

    The last word, our series about emotions in books, looks at early flutters of the heart this month, from Adrian Mole and Malorie Blackman to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

April 2023

  • Stormzy.

    Stormzy’s #Merky Books festival aims to ‘light imaginations’ of young storytellers

    Speaker Malorie Blackman says two-day event exists to ‘spark the aspirations’ of those who might not have considered a creative career

March 2023

  • Malorie Blackman, Alan Moore and Carol Ann Duffy

    Don’t write what you know, write what you feel: bestselling authors offer tips on World Book Day

    Malorie Blackman advises budding authors to pick up on news stories, but Julia Donaldson warns of pitfalls – and Alan Moore says you should read terrible books as well as good ones

December 2022

  • A vintage typewriter surrounded by sheets of crumpled paper

    The Guardian view on declining authors’ pay: an unequal burden

    Editorial: A steep slump in average earnings not only affects individuals, but impoverishes literature by dictating which stories get told

October 2022

  • Aubrey Plaza as Harper Spiller in The White Lotus, on Sky Atlantic.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: sex addicts, new money and murders … welcome back to the White Lotus hotel

  • Podcast Grace Dent's Comfort Eating Guest Malorie Blackman

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S4 E2: Malorie Blackman, writer

  • Malorie Blackman in a bookshop in London in 2021

    Book of the day
    Just Sayin’ by Malorie Blackman review – against the odds

  • Abduljalil al-Singace.

    ‘Immensely brave’: Abduljalil al-Singace named international writer of courage

June 2022

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    Malorie Blackman’s ‘dynamic imaginary worlds’ win her the PEN Pinter prize

    Noughts & Crosses author praised by judges for ‘challenging issues of injustice in a way that is totally engaging’

April 2022

  • 373443<br>Picture shows: Sephy Hadley (MASALI BADUZA), Callum McGregor (JACK ROWAN), Meggie McGregor (HELEN BAXENDALE)

    TV review
    Noughts + Crosses review – stilted, confused and poorly executed

  • Sephy (Masali Baduza) plans to leave Albion for good in Noughts + Crosses

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Malorie Blackman’s Noughts + Crosses is back – with new surprises

January 2022

  • A scene from the TV version of The Handmaid's Tale

    The Guardian view on prescience in novels: reading the future

  • Malorie Blackman.

    Malorie Blackman on seeing her sci-fi novel about a pig heart transplant come true

October 2021

  • Unsung heroes … Olaudah Equiano, Alexandre Dumas and Beryl Gilroy.

    My favourite overlooked Black writer – by Bernardine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood and more

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    One in five shortlisted authors for top UK literary prizes in 2020 were black

September 2021

  • Author Malorie Blackman.

    Young adult books round-up – review

    The heart-rending final act of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses saga, green-fingered teenagers and the spark for a new Netflix film work their magic
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