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Bantam by Jackie Kay
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Jackie Kay's first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit - one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus - Kay's own, her father's, and his own father's - to show us how the body holds its own story. Kay shows how old ...Show more
Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music
A portrait of the tempestuous life of the pioneering and iconic blues singer by Scotland’s National Poet. ‘[Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it … she’s the reason I started singing, really’ – Janis Joplin Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine ...Show more
Darling by Jackie Kay
$0.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and 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 Adopti ...Show more
Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule; Jackie Kay (Introduction by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor who is about to put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. She meets Ann Childs, 15 years her junior, and the pair embark on an affair, and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can las ...Show more
Fiere by Jackie Kay
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Jackie Kay's new collection is a lyric counterpart to her memoir, "Red Dust Road", the extraordinary story of the search for her Nigerian and Highland birth-parents; but it is also a moving book in its own right, and a deep enquiry into all forms of human friendship. "Fiere" - Scots for 'companion, frie ...Show more
Picador Shots - Sonata by Jackie Kay
$3.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This series is introducing 12 intoxicating short stories from 12 of Picador's most exciting writers. 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 alternat ...Show more
Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay
$39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This is a book about memories, love, sex and the power of the imagination to see us through the most difficult times. The women of Reality, Reality are mesmerizing, whether in love or in solitude. Grace and Rose, glowing with pride, are the first to marry on Shetland; Hadassah, named for the Morning Sta ...Show more
Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay
$27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 16
The women of Reality, Reality are mesmerizing, whether in love or in solitude. Full of compassion, generosity, sorrow and joy, their fifteen unforgettable stories explore the power of the imagination to make things real, and celebrate, most of all, those who dare to dream.
Red, Cherry Red by Jackie Kay
$0.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Jackie's latest collection of poetry is full of the dramatic power associated with her work, and plenty of music too. She explores the theme of identity in poems about an older generation, especially grandmothers, about the old days and the new days, and places the poet associates with these people, who ...Show more
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
<b>CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS</b> <i>You think adoption is a story which has an end. But the point about it is that it has no end. It keeps changing its ending.</i> From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of he ...Show more
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
$24.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+
'Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read' - "Independent". From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and f ...Show more
Red Dust Road: Picador Classic by Jackie Kay
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon `Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read' Independent From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a diffe ...Show more