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Faery Tales by Carol Ann Duffy contains classic fairy tales retold by the Poet Laureate, and available for the first time in a stunning gift edition.

About the Author

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for best collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, whileRapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011 - Costa Poetry Award). She is Poet Laureate.