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Double Cross, my latest book in the Noughts and Crosses sequence is out now.  Yippee!

My new book Double Cross comes out in November.  It’s the fourth in the Noughts and Crosses series.

Here’s what the book will look like!

Award winning author Malorie Blackman will be making a special appearance at the Hackney Empire to sign copies of her acclaimed novel Noughts and Crosses.  The stage version of the novel, adapted and directed by Dominic Cooke for the Royal Shakespeare Company, is currently touring the UK.  This exclusive event for lovers of children’s literature takes place Saturday 5th April at11.30am.  Later that day the final two performances of this hugely popular Romeo and Juliet inspired novel will take place at the legendary Hackney venue.

11.30am - 12.30pm Hackney Empire Hospitality Room (Entrance adjacent to Hackney Town Hall Square)291 Mare St, London. E8 1EJAdvance booking not necessary! 

Copies of Noughts and Crosses will be available to purchase at the Hackney Empire on the day. 

Info: Allan Watson 020 8510 4505

1 – 5 APRIL

HACKNEY EMPIRE Box Office: 020 8985 2424

Saturday, 1st March 2008 - Liverpool Playhouse I will be doing a talk followed by a book signing after the matinee performance of Noughts and Crosses at the Liverpool playhouse on 1st March 2008. Hope to see you there.

Tuesday, 25th March 2008 - Crofton Park Library I will be doing a talk about my novels followed by a book signing.  The talk will be suitable for the 8-plus age range.  Please contact the library for more details.

Christmas is only a few days away, and The Winged Elephant has a few suggestions for last-minute shoppers: Church Signs Across America is a great gift for everyone in the family - a guaranteed chuckle on Christmas morning. For kids, we recommend Beastly Feasts, the magnificent collaboration between Robert Forbes and illustrator Ronald Searle, and the new collector's edition of Emil and the Detectives, which features a new introduction by Maurice Sendak. For avid readers looking to spend the holidays curled up with a great novel, don't overlook Susan Hill's The Pure in Heart, Penny Vincenzi's The Dilemma, or Second Sight by Charles McCarry.

Here’s a list of the regional venues where the RSC Noughts and Crosses production will play after its run in Stratford-upon-Avon end on 2nd February 2008.  For more details, please see the rsc website - www.rsc.org.uk

Noughts & Crosses Tour schedule:

Northern Stage, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
15-24 February 2008
Box Office: 0191 230 5151 www.northernstage.co.uk

Liverpool Playhouse
26 February – 1 March 2008
Box Office: 0151 709 4776 (tickets on public sale 3 December 2007)
Online Booking (24 hour) www.everymanplayhouse.com

Poole Lighthouse
4 – 8 March 2008
Box Office: 08700 668701, www.lighthousepoole.co.uk

Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
18 – 22 March 2008
Box Office: 029 20 646900 or www.shermantheatre.co.uk

Nottingham Playhouse
25 – 29 March 2008
Box Office: 0115 941 9419 or www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk

Hackney Empire
1st - 5th April 2008
Box Office:  020 8985 2424  or  www.hackneyempire.co.uk

If you’d like to see me chatting about Noughts and Crosses the play, just click on the link below which will take you to the RSC website and then click on the promotional photo or on the link which says ‘Interview with Malorie Blackman’ - or words to that effect!

http://www.rsc.org.uk/WhatsOn/5989.aspx

 Enjoy!

The Overlook Press' own Susan Hill is offering a free Creative Writing Course! She's already being inundated with entrants! Here are the details straight from Ms. Hill:

1. It will begin in September 2007.

2. It will be on this blog but in a separate section from the main page - it will have its own dedicated area and all I will do on the main page is flag up the next lesson.

3. It will be open to anyone at all.

4. It will be FREE.

5. I will not be able to comment in detail on whole manuscripts but I will comment on individual work to a certain extent.

6. You will need to sign up for the course simply so that I will know if I am addressing one, or a thousand and one people. No comittment otherwise - I shan't know if you are there or not unless you comment etc.

7. You will need do some homework and this will include READING as well as writing. I do not believe you can learn to write well unless you read well, and read the work of those who have done the job better than you or I will ever do. So there will be reading and studying fiction and non-fiction as well as writing it.

Sign up today for your chance to study with the author of THE VARIOUS HAUNTS OF MEN and THE PURE OF HEART. And maybe your book will be featured in a future Overlook Press catalog!