Jackie Kay
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Trumpet
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret....
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Beautiful and True
- By Colin on 05-24-17
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Trumpet
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 02-01-12
- Language: English
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Bessie Smith
- A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction to create an entirely unique biography of the Empress of the Blues....
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Phenomenal
- By kristina on 11-10-21
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Bessie Smith
- A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-28-21
- Language: English
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Bessie Smith
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Jackie Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived....
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Bessie Smith
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Jackie Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-16-21
- Language: English
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Red Dust Road
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
From the moment when, as a little girl, she realises that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant and moving
- By Jenna on 03-15-14
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Red Dust Road
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-07-11
- Language: English
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Why Don't You Stop Talking
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Caroline Guthrie, Cathleen McCarron, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story2.5 out of 5 stars 2
In Jackie Kay’s first collection of stories, ordinary lives are transformed by secrets.
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Why Don't You Stop Talking
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Caroline Guthrie, Cathleen McCarron, Rachael Loiuse Miller
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-09-13
- Language: English
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Bantam
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Jackie Kay's first collection as Scottish Makar is an audiobook about the fighting spirit - one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever....
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Bantam
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-16-17
- Language: English
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Wish I Was Here
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Forbes Masson, Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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This fierce, funny, and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love....
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Wish I Was Here
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Forbes Masson, Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-01-12
- Language: English
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Fiere
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Jackie Kay’s new collection is a lyric counterpart to her memoir, Red Dust Road, the extraordinary story of the search for her Nigerian and Highland birth-parents; but it is also a moving book in its own right, and a deep enquiry into all forms of human friendship....
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Fiere
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-25-24
- Language: English
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May Day
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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May Day is the long-awaited collection, and a chronicle of activism in the UK over six decades, from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay....
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May Day
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-25-24
- Language: English
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