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  • Trumpet

    A Novel

    by Jackie Kay ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    "Supremely humane.... Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion.The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

  • Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey

    by Jackie Kay ...
    A heart-warming book that answers the question: how do you define "family"?Once, as a small child, she realizes that her skin is a different color from that of her beloved parents, Jackie Kay embarks on a complicated and humorous journey to treasure the adoptive family that chose her, track down her birth parents—her Scottish Highland mother and Nigerian father—and embrace her unexpected and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Darling

    New & Selected Poems

    by Jackie Kay ...
    Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. Darling brings together into a vibrant new book many favourite poems from her four Bloodaxe collections, "The Adoption Papers", "Other Lovers", "Off Colour" and "Life Mask", as well as featuring new work, some ... Read more

    $8.89 USD

  • PICADOR SHOTS - 'Sonata'

    by Jackie Kay ...
    Series Book 35 - Picador Shots
    In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at £1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine.Jackie Kay's 'Sonata' will be one of the first Picador Shots and comes from her new ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Bessie Smith

    A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend

    by Jackie Kay ...
    A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction to create an entirely unique biography of the Empress of the Blues.There has never been anyone else like Bessie Smith. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1894 and orphaned by the age of nine, Bessie Smith sang on street corners before becoming ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Adoption Papers

    by Jackie Kay ...
    Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a whiteScottish couple from three different viewpoints: the mother,the birth mother and the daughter. This unique and honest volumeof poems has been adapted for radio. Also included in thebook are new poems reflecting issues of sexuality, Scottishness and being working-class. ... Read more

    $7.89 USD

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    A History of Women in 101 Objects

    by Annabelle Hirsch ...
    Narrated by Annabelle Hirsch, Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, Jackie Kay, Len Pennie, Shirley Manson, Rebecca Solnit, Sandi Toksvig, Marina Hyde0, Naomi Shimada1, Full Cast2 ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 8 min

    Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking stories behind them.“I adored this book!”—Olivia ColmanThis is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Best British Short Stories 2013

    by Rob Shearman, Ellis Sharp, Charles Boyle, Nikesh Shukla, Nina Killham, Charles Lambert, Lesley Glaister, Laura Del-Rivo, Jackie Kay, MJ Hyland, Regi Claire, Adam Lively, Guy Ware, Adam Marek, Anneliese Mackintosh, Alex Preston, Alison Moore, David Rose, Ross Raisin, James Wall, Nicholas Royle ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of Bounds

    British Black & Asian Poets

    by Jackie Kay, James Procter, Gemma Robinson ...
    From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh perspective. This extensive and ground-breaking anthology – with its sudden forks in the road, and its roads not taken – stops off in the Highlands ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

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    Why Don't You Stop Talking

    by Jackie Kay ...
    Narrated by Adjoa Andoh, Caroline Guthrie, Cathleen McCarron, Rachael Louise Miller, Multiple Narrators ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    In Jackie Kay’s first collection of stories, ordinary lives are transformed by secrets. Her world might seem familiar – sex, death and family cast long shadows – but the roles of mothers, daughters and lovers are imagined and revealed in the most surprising of ways. Jackie Kay sees the extraordinary in everyday life, and lights it up with humour and generosity in a way that is uniquely her own. ... Read more

    $15.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Wish I Was Here

    by Jackie Kay ...
    Narrated by Anna Bentinck, Cathleen McCarron, Forbes Masson, Multiple Narrators ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    Tales of passion and jealousy, lust and romance from the award-winning author of Red Dust RoadThis fierce, funny and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winning directness, Jackie Kay captures her characters’ greatest joy and greatest vulnerability, exposing the moments of tenderness, of shock, of bravery and of ... Read more

    $15.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Time Loops & Meet Cutes

    A Novel

    by Jackie Lau ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay, Raymond J. Lee ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    “One of Lau’s sharpest books yet.” —TheNew York Times Book Review**One of The New York Times Book Review’s Best Romance Novels of 2025One of NPR’s Books We Love 2025**The “**masterful, inspiring, and full of heart” (Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author) Jackie Lau returns with a thoroughly unique love story about a woman reliving the s... ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook