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Three Brides for the Devil

Brief Description
How do you outwit the devil himself? When the Devil rides into town looking for a wife, he has one rule – she must be obedient. Coming across the house of a widow and her three daughters, he thinks he has found what he is looking... Read More
Format: Hardback
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How do you outwit the devil himself?

When the Devil rides into town looking for a wife, he has one rule – she must be obedient.

Coming across the house of a widow and her three daughters, he thinks he has found what he is looking for. But can these sisters play him at his own game?

A companion book to Nicholls' celebrated Godfather Death.

Praise for Godfather Death:
'An outstanding reworking of an old tale' New Statesman, Picture Book of the Year

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781839137853

Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 September 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Andersen Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by John Broadley

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 183.0mm

Height: 251.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 48

About the Author

Sally Nicholls (Author)
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, the YA Book Prize and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons.

John Broadley (Illustrator)
John Broadley's first children’s book, While You’re Sleeping, written by Mick Jackson, was a New York Times Children’s Book of the Year winner, a finalist in the Klaus Flugge Prize and longlisted for the Carnegie Prize for Illustration. The follow up, We’re Going Places was one of Observer’s Picture Books of the Year. Cooking Simply and Well for One or Many, written by Jeremy Lee and illustrated by John was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year.

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