Jackie Kay

The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret....

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....

Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived....

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....

In Jackie Kay’s first collection of stories, ordinary lives are transformed by secrets.

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....

This is a book about memories, love, sex and the power of the imagination to see us through the most difficult times....

This fierce, funny, and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....