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Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
22.99 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
Letters to the Earth by Anna Hope (Compiled by); Kay Michael (Compiled by); Jo McInnes (Compiled by); Jackie Morris (Illustrator); Emma Thompson (Introduction by)
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas 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
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
The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay
19.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
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
Trumpet (Picador Classic) by Jackie Kay
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Ali Smith. When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was ...Show more
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