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Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
$24.99 AUD
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
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
$19.99 AUD
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
Wish I Was Here by Jackie Kay
$22.95 AUD
Category: 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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