Jackie Kay

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

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

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....

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

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

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

Jackie Kay’s first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit – one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus – Kay’s own, her father’s, and his own father’s – to show us how the body holds its own...

Read by the author, Jackie Kay. A deeply moving and searching enquiry into all forms of human friendship, Fiere is a brilliant collection of poems by Jackie Kay, as well as a lyric counterpart to her memoir, Red Dust Road: the extraordinary story of the search for her Nigerian and Highland...

This poetry collection is beautifully and skilfully read by the author, renowned poet Jackie Kay. May Day is the long-awaited new collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay. As the title suggests, these poems cast an eye over several decades of political...