Jackie Kay
1) Bessie Smith
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.
2) Trumpet
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A celebrated trumpeter has died and the jazz world is in mourning, but in death, he can no longer guard the secret he kept all his life, and his adoring son must confront the truth that the man whom he believed to be his father was, in fact, a woman.
9) Life mask
Author
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Jackie Kay's 'Life Mask' is about love, loss, secrets and mistaken identity. These searching poems reveal the many ways people hide from each other and from themselves.
10) Red dust road
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In this revelatory and redemptive book Jackie Kay tells the story of her own life. It is a book about belonging and beliefs, strangers and family, biology and destiny and what makes us who we are.