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  • The Best British Short Stories 2013

    by Rob Shearman, Ellis Sharp, Charles Boyle, Nikesh Shukla, Nina Killham, Charles Lambert, Lesley Glaister, Laura Del-Rivo, Jackie Kay, MJ Hyland, Regi Claire, Adam Lively, Guy Ware, Adam Marek, Anneliese Mackintosh, Alex Preston, Alison Moore, David Rose, Ross Raisin, James Wall, Nicholas Royle ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Here I Stand: Stories that Speak for Freedom

    by John Boyne, Tony Birch, Sita Brahmachari, Kevin Brooks, Kate Charlesworth, Sarah Crossan, Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos, Ryan Gattis, Matt Haig, Frances Hardinge, Jackie Kay, Liz Kessler, Elizabeth Laird, Amy Leon, Sabrina Mahfouz, Chelsea Manning, Chibundu Onuzo, Bali Rai, Chris Riddell, Christie Watson, Tim Wynne-Jones, Mary Talbot, Bryan Talbot, A. L. Kennedy ...
    A thought-provoking collection of short stories and poems exploring the rights and freedoms we can enjoy in the twenty-first century ... and those for which we still need to fight.A selection of the world's finest writers for young people – in conjunction with Amnesty International UK – explore the rights and freedoms still lacking in today's society, covering issues such as gender equality, race ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Adoption Papers

    by Jackie Kay ...
    Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a whiteScottish couple from three different viewpoints: the mother,the birth mother and the daughter. This unique and honest volumeof poems has been adapted for radio. Also included in thebook are new poems reflecting issues of sexuality, Scottishness and being working-class. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Darling

    New & Selected Poems

    by Jackie Kay ...
    Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. Darling brings together into a vibrant new book many favourite poems from her four Bloodaxe collections, "The Adoption Papers", "Other Lovers", "Off Colour" and "Life Mask", as well as featuring new work, some ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 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!

    by Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Bola Agbaje, Mr Roy Williams, Ms Jackie Kay, Mr Mustapha Matura ...
    Series series Play Anthologies
    The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Red Dust Road

    by Ms Jackie Kay, Tanika Gupta ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Growing up in 70s Scotland as the adopted mixed raced child of a Communist couple, young Jackie blossoms into an outspoken, talented poet. Then she decides to find her birth parents…Based on the soul-searching memoir by Scots Makar Jackie Kay, Red Dust Road takes you on a journey from Nairn to Lagos, full of heart, humour and deep emotions. Discover how we are shaped by the folk songs we hear as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 100 Queer Poems

    by Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest, Audre Lorde, Mary Oliver, Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Seán Hewitt, June Jordan, Kaveh Akbar, Jay Bernard, Natalie Diaz, Jericho Brown, Vikram Seth, Langston Hughes ...
    Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more.* A Guardian Best Poetry Book of the Year ** Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards *Encompassing both the flowering of queer ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • PICADOR SHOTS - 'Sonata'

    by Jackie Kay ...
    Series Book 35 - Picador Shots
    In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at £1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine.Jackie Kay's 'Sonata' will be one of the first Picador Shots and comes from her new ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Bessie Smith

    A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend

    by Jackie Kay ...
    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.There has never been anyone else like Bessie Smith. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1894 and orphaned by the age of nine, Bessie Smith sang on street corners before becoming ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    by Snoo Wilson, Simon Armitage, Bryony Lavery, Davey Anderson, Katori Hall, Mr Patrick Marber, Mr Mark Ravenhill, Mr James Graham, Mr Carl Grose, Ms Stacey Gregg, Ms Lucinda Coxon, Ms Jackie Kay, Frantic Assembly ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    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 by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Out of Bounds

    British Black & Asian Poets

    by Jackie Kay, James Procter, Gemma Robinson ...
    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 a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh perspective. This extensive and ground-breaking anthology – with its sudden forks in the road, and its roads not taken – stops off in the Highlands ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Between the Acts

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JACKIE KAY AND LISA JARDINEA village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and directed by the energetic Miss La Trobe, the pageant will take in the history of England from the Middle Ages. The past blends with the present and art blends with life in a narrative full of invention, affection and lyricism ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook