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Story Of Teenage Bomber, A Bestseller
Author 'fulfills need for contemporary, gritty fiction'.
Mallorie Blackman's latest addition to the trilogy that explores race and equality and was fueled her own experiences of racism in Britain is flying off the shelves. Checkmate, the story of Callie Rose, a mixed-race teenager who trains to become a suicide bomber to avenge the death of her father hanged for fighting racists, is well on its way to becoming a bestseller.
Published just three weeks before the first bomb attackes in London Checkmate has already risen to second place on waterstone's teen fiction list and is only being outsold by the latest Harry Potter.
The 42-year-old of Barbadian parentage is already a successful teenage author with many well received titles under her belt.
Noughts and Crosses published in 2002, was the first release in the trilogy which, turned the race issue on its head and is set in a fictional world occupied by a ruling class of black people called 'Crosses' and a subservient class of white people called 'Noughts'. It was followed by Knife Edge in 2004, and Checkmate the final installment and has been said to fulfill 'teenagers' need for contemporary, gritty fiction'.
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