The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy DBE Groundswell Speaker 2024

The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy DBE Groundswell Speaker 2024Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman and from the quick tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection of feminist poems. Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver

Which all seem to be of one girl – and she’s going to start a war

Did Phil once push a baby grand piano down the stairs of a plush hotel

heroic and kind

and the far-reaching trauma of solitude

the restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to the past – and a way to a more contented future

the original best-selling game

All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist

one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works

Elixir reads like a novel

Hodder & StoughtonISBN: 9781444707854Extent: 912 pages

The Stargazer’s Bible is the fifth title in this stunning and engaging series

author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series 'In presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose