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    Jackie Kay

    Bantam, the latest poetry collection from Jackie Kay, the Scottish Makar, is a collection about the fighting spirit, at a time when we need that spirit more than ever.

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    Red Dust Road

    Jackie Kay

    A memoir and soul-searching journey by Jackie Kay.

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    May Day

    Jackie Kay

    The long-awaited collection from one of Britain's finest poets, and a chronicle of activism in the UK over six decades.

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    Chiaroscuro

    Jackie Kay (Author)

    A searing, tender look at queer Black womanhood by award-winning writer and Scots Makar Jackie Kay.

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    The Adoption Papers

    Jackie Kay

    Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl’s adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter.

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    Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend

    Jackie Kay

    A Vintage Books original –Title page verso.

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    Why Don’t You Stop Talking

    Jackie Kay

    An exhilarating collection of stories from the legendary Jackie Kay

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    Bantam

    Jackie Kay

    Bantam, a poetry collection from Jackie Kay, the Scottish Makar, is a collection about the fighting spirit, at a time when we need that spirit more than ever.

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    The Lamplighter

    Jackie Kay

    The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay is a groundbreaking lyrical drama that explores the heart of British slave trade through the experiences of four unforgettable women.

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    Reality, Reality

    Jackie Kay

    Hot on the heels of Fiere and Red Dust Road, a generous new collection from a storyteller in a class of her own.

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    Red Dust Road: Picador Classic

    Jackie Kay

    A memoir and soul-searching journey by Jackie Kay.

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    Fiere

    Jackie Kay

    Jackie Kay brings her poetry to Picador with a brilliant new collection that crosses borders

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    Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

    Jackie Kay

    Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer. Scotland’s National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.

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    Darling: New and Selected Poems

    Jackie Kay

    Brings together many favourite poems from the author’s four collections - The Adoption Papers , Other Lovers , Off Colour and Life Mask - as well as some previously uncollected…

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    Trumpet: A Novel

    Jackie Kay

    The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, as the reminiscences of those who knew him form the basis for a moving portrait of a shared…

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    Trumpet

    Jackie Kay

    A modern classic of enduring love, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.

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    Ten Poems about Kindness

    Kindness can be an underestimated virtue in our increasingly hectic and impersonal world. It is a word that we use most often in our conversations with young children when we…

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    The Poetry and Drama of Jackie Kay: (Scotnotes Study Guides)

    Lorna Smith

    This Scotnote Study Guide examines issues of family and cultural identities in Jackie Kay’s work. It covers a wide range of her poetry as well as her 2008 poetic drama…

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    Red Dust Road

    Jackie Kay (Author)

    In 1970s Scotland, an adopted mixed race woman sets out to find her birth parents. Red Dust Road takes you on a journey full of heart, humour and deep emotions.

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    Red, Cherry Red

    Jackie Kay (Author)

    A wonderful new collection of poems to read and listen to, from award-winning Scottish poet Jackie Kay.

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    The Measure Of My Powers: A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris

    Jackie Kay Ellis

    A story about one woman’s search for self-love, experienced through food and travel.

    On the surface, Jackie Kai Ellis’s life was the one that every woman–herself included–wanted. She was in…

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    A History of Women in 101 Objects

    Annabelle Hirsch

    This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through…

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    A History of Women in 101 Objects

    Annabelle Hirsch

    This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through…

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    The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King

    Anthology celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King receiving an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in November 1967, six months before his assassination in April…

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    The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Love

    Edwin Morgan

    Introduced by Jackie Kay, this selection of poems include the famous Strawberries and One Cigarette and four from Morgan’s autobiographical sequence, Love and a Life - love in all its…

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    Bessie Smith

    Jackie Kay

    In the OUT LINES series, a biography of blues singer Bessie Smith which examines her artistic success and personal tragedies, provides information about her lesbian affairs and unhappy marriage and…

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    Desert Of The Heart

    Jane Rule

    Regarded as a classic of lesbian literature and was groundbreaking when published in 1964.

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    The Stone Throwers: A Man-Hunt for Vietnam War Draft Evaders

    Jackie R Kays

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    Speaking from the Margins: The Voice of the ‘Other’ in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay

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    The voice of the other in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy – The voice of the other in the poetry of Jackie Kay.

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    To Die Alone

    Jackie, R. Kays

    This novel has a fast pace plot, that takes the reader from California to Vietnam and back. The main character is an Air police Investigator, who is investigating a desertion…

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    Four Women Poets: Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, Fleur Adcock

    Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study in English-speaking classrooms.

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    The House That Kay Built

    Jackie Barrett

    Kay Dillion and her seven-year-old daughter Becky are preparing to move on with their lives. After months of living with her brother, Kay finds the perfect apartment to begin her…

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    Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets

    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…

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    Between the Acts

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    WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINE A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. The…

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    Disclosures: Rewriting the Narrative About HIV

    Jackie (Foreword) Kay

    Being HIV positive today is completely different from how it was thirty years ago. With a foreword from Scottish Makar Jackie Kay, this anthology collects work from those affected by…

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    Ask Me about Mary Kay: The True Story Behind the Bumper Sticker on the Pink Cadillac

    Jackie Brown

    In December of 1963, grief over the recent assassination of President Kennedy gave rise to a heightened sense of urgency to grab the brass ring now. So it was that…

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    Ask ME About MARY KAY: The true story behind the bumper sticker on the pink Cadillac

    Jackie Brown

    In December of 1963, grief over the recent assassination of President Kennedy gave rise to a heightened sense of urgency to grab the brass ring now. So it was that…

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    The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers: Welcome Home Jacko; Chiaroscuro; Talking in Tongues; Sing Yer Heart Out …; Fix Up; Gone Too Far!

    Mustapha Matura (Author),Jackie Kay (Author),Winsome Pinnock,Roy Williams

    This wide ranging collection of plays by black British playwrights features six key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from 1979 to the present. It contains…

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    The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Box Set

    Edwin Morgan

    The beginning of the new decade brings with it a celebration of one of Scotland’s most cherished poets, Scotland’s first modern Makar, Edwin Morgan. A son of Glasgow, the city’s…

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    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

    Snoo Wilson,Simon Armitage,Jackie Kay (Author),Patrick Marber,Mark Ravenhill

    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…

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    Dark Horse

    Jackie Poirier

    Supernatural events conspire in the Adirondack Mountains, bringing James Buchanan and Kay Archer together as they endeavor to answer three burning questions- What happened to Jean Briggs? What does the…

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    ICT and Society: 11th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC11 2014, Turku, Finland, July 30 - August 1, 2014, Proceedings

    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC11 2014, held in Turku, Finland, in July/August 2014. They have…

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    ICT and Society: 11th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC11 2014, Turku, Finland, July 30 - August 1, 2014, Proceedings

    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC11 2014, held in Turku, Finland, in July/August 2014. They have…

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    Refugee Tales: Volume II

    Jackie Kay,Olivia Laing,Rachel Holmes,Caroline Bergvall,Josh Cohen

    Modelled on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained.

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    The Best British Short Stories 2013

    The third in a landmark series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 brings you the best of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012.

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    100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five years of the Forward Books

    William Sieghart

    A series highlighting the works commended annually for the prestigious Forward Prizes. It brings together the best poems published over a quarter century in twenty-five editions of the Forward books…

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    The Women Writers’ Handbook

    A.S. Byatt,Philippa Gregory,Jackie Kay,Madeleine Thien

    New edition of award-winning writers’ guide celebrates 30 years of feminist publishing. 30 authors including: A.S. Byatt, Kit de Waal, Carol Ann Duffy, Philippa Gregory, Jackie Kay, Madeleine Thien, Claire…

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