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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
Letters to the Earth by Anna Hope (Compiled by); Kay Michael (Compiled by); Jo McInnes (Compiled by); Jackie Morris (Illustrator); Emma Thompson (Introduction by)
24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The largest creative response to the climate and ecological emergency the world has yet seen. 2019 was the year of rebellion. It was the year nurses, poets, nine-year olds and grandparents came together to say: we know the truth about climate change - now it is time to act. But what words describe this ...Show more
Picador Shots - Sonata by Jackie Kay
3.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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: General Fiction
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
Red, Cherry Red by Jackie Kay
23.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
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
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In this revelatory and redemptive book, with characteristic generosity and humour, Jackie Kay tells the most inspirational of stories: her own.
The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay
24.99 NZD
Category: Literature
The Lamplighter takes us on a journey through the dark heart of slavery. Produced both as a radio and stage play, it also reads as a stirring and a multi-layered poem. Four women and one man tell the story of their lives through slavery, from the the fort, to the slave ship, through the middle passage, ...Show more
Wish I Was Here by Jackie Kay
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This fierce, funny and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winning directness, Kay captures her characters' greatest joys and greatest vulnerability, exposing the moments of tenderness, of shock, of bravery and stupidity t ...Show more
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