Just Sayin': My Life In Words

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Noughts & Crosses was No. 61 on the Big Read list, a 2003 BBC survey to find "The Nation's Best-Loved Book", with more votes than A Tale of Two Cities, several Terry Pratchett novels and Lord of the Flies. You can also use the external lift near the Artists' Entrance on Southbank Centre Square to reach Mandela Walk, Level 2. She is also a writer whose own life has been shaped by books, from her childhood in south London, the daughter of parents who moved to Britain from Barbados as part of the Windrush Generation, and who experienced a childhood that was both wonderful and marred by the everyday racism and bigotry of the era. She was told she could not apply to study her first love, literature, at university, in spite of her academic potential, but found a way to books and to a life in writing against a number of obstacles.

Talk to a member of staff at the auditorium entrance if you have a disability that means you can’t queue, or you need extra time to take your seat. They can arrange priority entry for you as soon as the doors open. There are so many: Dorothy Koomson, Patrice Lawrence – anything Patrice does. Elle McNicoll; I thought her A Kind of Spark was a brilliant, brilliant book. And I do love my graphic novels: I really enjoyed BB Alston’s Amari and the Night Brothers, and I want to read his latest one. Join Malorie as talks with author, journalist and TV presenter Candice Brathwaite to share how she gravitated to imaginary worlds and realms to escape her complicated childhood.

Not only do we get to see all of that, but more about why she wrote her books too. I was especially interested in hearing more about where her spark for Noughts and Crosses came from and that publication process. In some cases, anger fuelled her, and sometimes it was exclusion and defying the odds, and sometimes imagination... it's also a very true story about perserverance which was reassuring to see from this great author, as someone who is an aspiring author as well. Peacemaker" in the multi-author collection Peacemaker and Other Stories (illustrated by Peter Richardson and David Hine), Heinemann Educational, 1999, ISBN 0-435-11600-2 Betsey Biggalow the Detective (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN 1-85340-163-3

Yeah, I think so. You’re so wrapped up in the grief of it and going through the bereavement process. It’s very much something that my husband and I went through, and you don’t appreciate that others have gone through it too and could offer insight and support. Or just that hand on the shoulder or a smile to say, I know exactly what you’re going through. And it means such a lot.To reach this entrance, enter the Royal Festival Hall via the Southbank Centre Square Doors. Take the JCB Glass Lift to Level 2 and exit to the Riverside Terrace. Turn right to find the Queen Elizabeth Hall main entrance. Music production, a term of Chinese, a term of BSL [British Sigh Language), I did jewellery making, an online course on forensic science. Just something entirely new to make sure my brain doesn’t atrophy. And then it all feeds into my writing because I might have someone who has that as a hobby and I can at least write with some degree of knowledge. We meet the two art teachers who, according to Stuart, ‘saved his life’. Just like his character Shuggie, he’d lost his own mother to alcohol addiction. He was on the cusp of homelessness, struggling to stay on at school but in just a few years he went from a Glasgow bedsit to the Royal College of Art, and landed in epicentre of New York fashion working for Calvin Klein. The Deadly Dare Mysteries (contents: Deadly Dare, 1995, Computer Ghost, 1997, Lie Detectives , 1998; illustrated by Neil Chapman), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN 0-552-55353-0

For access to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating rows A to C and wheelchair spaces in the Front Stalls, please enter via the Artists' Entrance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road (Level 1). How are you with managing distractions such as social media when you write? I’m guessing, with your productivity, pretty good… Dare to be Different" (illustrated by Jane Ray) in the multi-author collection Dare to be Different, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0-7475-4021-7 Don’t miss the chance to hear her, as she shares her own life lessons, the impetus behind her biggest books, and a few writing tips too! This memoir made me so angry. There are so many injustices she has faced - especially when it comes to racism within the medical system. I raged for her, and felt crushed for her... it's one worth reading. If anything, to see how this queen rose above it all.

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