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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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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

    $12.79 USD

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    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

    $13.17 USD

  • 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

  • Red Dust Road

    by Ms Jackie Kay, Tanika Gupta ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Growing up in 70s Scotland as the adopted mixed raced child of a Communist couple, young Jackie blossoms into an outspoken, talented poet. Then she decides to find her birth parents…Based on the soul-searching memoir by Scots Makar Jackie Kay, Red Dust Road takes you on a journey from Nairn to Lagos, full of heart, humour and deep emotions. Discover how we are shaped by the folk songs we hear as ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Chiaroscuro

    by Ms Jackie Kay ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    I want to find it all nowknow our names know the others in historyso many women have been lost at seaso many stories have been swept awayChiaroscuro: (noun) the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.Aisha, Yomi, Beth and Opal couldn't be more different, but when Aisha hosts a dinner party, the friends soon discover that they're all looking for an answer to the same question. Does it ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Connections 500

    Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug

    by Snoo Wilson, Simon Armitage, Bryony Lavery, Davey Anderson, Katori Hall, Mr Patrick Marber, Mr Mark Ravenhill, Mr James Graham, Mr Carl Grose, Ms Stacey Gregg, Ms Lucinda Coxon, Ms Jackie Kay, Frantic Assembly ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • 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

  • The Mighty Stream

    Poems in celebration of Martin Luther King

    by Carolyn Forché, Jackie Kay ...
    Series series
    When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said: ‘There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face today…That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war.’As part of a fifty year anniversary and celebration, this ... Read more

    $9.39 USD