News about Malorie Blackman

Alice in Wonderland, Noddy, Harry Potter, Tracy Beaker, they are the books we all grew up reading but Constance Craig Smith discovers what made their authors tick in Sam Leith's The Haunted Wood.

TikTok is launching 'BookTok bookshelves' in cities across the UK identified as lacking in 'literary provision'.  BookTok - the area of the platform where users share book recommendations - has been largely credited in the resurgence of reading as a popular hobby among young people with more than 32 million posts and more than 167 billion views.  The bookshelves have been set up following research by the National Literary Trust (NLT) that found fewer than three in ten children aged eight to 18 read every day. The shelves will be placed in 11 cities in the UK found to face the 'biggest challenges' with literacy and include Nottingham (pictured) and Manchester.

Pop royalty rarely meets real royalty on a daily basis, but it wasn't always that way at the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction awards. Queen Consort Camilla was seen rubbing shoulders with no other than Dua Lipa on October 17 — and followers were sold. Lipa was caught on a black velvet Burberry dress with a plunging sweetheart neckline and mesh opera gloves, implying that she was "completely honored" to attend the function. Lipa is believed to have said "no singing tonight" while she did bust out "Happy Birthday" to shortlisted author Alan Garner. One fan tweeted, "I LOVE DUA LIPA!!!!!And here she is chatting it up with Camilla, LOVE THIS!!!!"while another commented that the meeting was "Too fun!!! "Italian" said the author.

If it wasn't for recent events, J.K. Rowling (pictured) and Joanne Harris might have remarked on the surprising amount of common ground they have shared in the aftermath of last week's sickening knife assault on fellow author Sir Salman Rushdie.

During the first UK lockdown in 2020, Malorie Blackman's novel "Noughts & Crosses" was released on television. The series's timing was specifically designed to accommodate current debates about race and discrimination, which were also present in different countries. "Noughts + Crosses," the first series of "Noughts + Crosses" has returned to BBC One and iPlayer for a second series starring Sephy Hadley, portrayed by rising actor Masali Baduza. Baduza reveals that she was drawn to this project because it is a tale in which Black people are not oppressed. "I was aware of the Black Lives Matter movement while attending college in the United States," she says. "I've been involved with it for a long time, which is why I've been compelled to 'Noughts + Crosses'." It does for me imply black liberation in a variety of ways."