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The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.15'Ambitious, defiant, angry and gripping . . . the bitter story of slavery through the experience of four women' Guardian'Jackie Kay's work, formally expansive and inclusive . . . is always about the... -
Fiere by Jackie Kay
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Jackie 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... -
Trumpet Jackie Kay 9781035038961
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02*Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize*‘Rich, taut and compelling’ – Melvyn Bragg, The Guardian‘An accomplished display of vocal versatility’ – The Literary ReviewThe death of legendary jazz trumpeter... -
Chiaroscuro by Jackie Kay 9781786829740
Booksplease Price: £12.78I want to find it all nowknow our names know the others in historyso many women have been lost at seaso many stories have been swept awayChiaroscuro: (noun) the treatment of light and shade in... -
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksYou 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.From the moment when, as a little... -
The Adoption Papers Jackie Kay 9781852241568
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter. The Adoption Papers won the Forward... -
Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay 9780330515726
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30The women of Reality, Reality are mesmerizing, whether in love or in solitude. Full of compassion, generosity, sorrow and joy, their fifteen unforgettable stories explore the power of the imagination... -
Red, Cherry Red by Ms Jackie Kay
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05A powerful poetry collection full of the drama, musicality and lyricism that Jackie Kay is famed for. Exploring the themes of identity and age, this collection includes poems about the old days... -
Why Don't You Stop Talking by Jackie Kay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A stunner. I am heartbroken to have finished it' Ali Smith In Jackie Kay's first collection of stories, ordinary lives are transformed by secrets. Her world might seem familiar - sex, death and... -
Jackie Kay: Critical Essays Tasha Alden 9781032757278
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Jackie Kay: Critical Essays offers the first full-length critical study of Jackie Kay's work. It brings together a range of essays by international scholars to examine a writer who has expanded the... -
Darling: New and Selected Poems Jackie Kay 9781852247775
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and Cultural Difference. When do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. "Darling"... -
Refugee Tales: Volume II by Jackie Kay 9781910974308
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910974308Author Jackie KayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Comma PressPublisher Comma Press -
Coorie Doon: A Scottish Lullaby Story Jackie Kay 9781529506662
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The stunning debut picture book from Jackie Kay, one of the UK's foremost poets, rooted in familiar folk songs, and injected with gloriously lyrical old Scots.When Shona was a wee bit bairnHer daddy... -
Coorie Doon: A Scottish Lullaby Story: The stunning debut picture book from critically acclaimed Scottish poet Jackie Kay Jackie Kay 9781529532210
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.48The stunning debut picture book from Jackie Kay, one of the UK's foremost poets, rooted in familiar folk songs, and injected with gloriously lyrical old Scots.When Shona was a wee bit bairnHer daddy... -
Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK by Jackie Kay 9780571362929
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKBessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer. Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived. 'A gem of... -
Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets Jackie Kay 9781852249298
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45From 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,... -
The Poetry and Drama of Jackie Kay: (Scotnotes Study Guides) by Lorna Smith
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £6.00Jackie Kay served as Scotland's Makar from 2016 to 2021 and is one of Scotland's foremost writers. Much of her work explores her own life and heritage, her upbringing and the cultural forces which... -
Nature Matters: Vital Poems from Global Majority Writers Mona Arshi 9780571370283
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Revitalising conversations around environmentalism and ecopoetics, this new gathering of African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora voices is both urgent and inspirational.There has been a welcome surge... -
The Book of Tbilisi: A City in Short Fiction by Gvantsa Jobava 9781910974315
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83In the 26 years since Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union, the country and its capital, Tbilisi, have endured unimaginable hardships: one coup d'etat, two wars with Russia, the cancer... -
May Day: the new collection from one of Britain's best-loved poets by Jackie Kay 9781509864836
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02May Day is the long-awaited new poetry collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay.These poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from... -
Four Women Poets: Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, Fleur Adcock by Judith Baxter 9780521485456
Booksplease Price: £13.22A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow.A collection of literature anthologies and... -
Hieroglyphics And Other Stories Anne Donovan 9781841955193
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A beautiful collection - charming, witty and touching - these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid 9781838857646
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to... -
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history Annabelle Hirsch 9781837260416
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A journey, picked out in... -
A Cultural History of Vertigo: Unbalanced Anindya Raychaudhuri 9781350523517
Booksplease Price: £85.65The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary and cultural representations of vertigo... -
Other Worlds: An Anthology of Scottish Island Poems by Stewart Conn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers... -
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION, THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR THE PANOPTICON and THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2021'One of the... -
Its Colours They Are Fine Alan Spence 9781786892973
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence's celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of... -
Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72SHORTLISTED FOR THE HEARST BIG BOOK AWARDS 2019 THE STUNNING SHORT-STORY COLLECTION FROM PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR JENNIFER NANSUBUGA MAKUMBI If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer... -
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49JENNI FAGAN HAS BEEN NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2013'One of the most... -
A Handsel: New and Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead 9781846976513
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91Liz Lochhead is one of the country's leading poets. Her work has paved the way and inspired some of the most inspirational voices writing in Scotland today, including Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie,... -
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 9780141995793
Booksplease Price: £9.42**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List**Winner of the Gordon Burn PrizeWinner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics... -
Poems from the Edge of Extinction: The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library Chris McCabe 9781473692992
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards. One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in... -
Poems: 1962-2020 by Louise Gluck
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poetFor the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless... -
A Passage To India by E. M. Forster 9781857150292
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, and feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek... -
The Delusions by Dr Jenni Fagan 9781529153095
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54THE BOLD NEW NOVEL FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PANOPTICON, LUCKENBOOTH AND OOTLIN'1984 for the afterlife' Irvine Welsh'Outstanding' Lemn Sissay'Awe-inspiring' Kirstin Innes'Bold and... -
Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire by GerShun Avilez
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical,... -
The Jewel In The Crown by Paul Scott
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15___________________NOW A BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA DRAMATISATION STARRING ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN AND PRASANNA PUWANARAJAH___________________BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTETIndia 1942: everything is in flux. World... -
Cal by Bernard Mac Laverty
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Cal has very few choices in life. He can continue working at the abattoir that sickens him, or join the ranks of the unemployed. He can brood on his past or try to plan a future with Marcella. Cal is...