No Figgy Pudding
$29.02
- Hardcover
48 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2027
Summary
The latest installment in Carol Ann Duffy’s series of beautiful Christmas poems.
It’s winter 1646 and the Puritan ban on Christmas has cast a dark pall over the city of London. Cromwell’s men enforce the decree that no one may so much as savour a mince pie, but the people have other ideas. As tell-tale scents of cinnamon and spice waft from kitchen windows, and a clandestine party gathers at The George, can the revellers keep their celebrations secret?
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781037414930 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1037414934 |
| Author: | Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, Carol Ann Duffy |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 120mm x 130mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019.
Her many collections include Mean Time, Love Poems and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief.
She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.
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