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Trumpet
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is most devastating for their adopted son, Colman, whose bewildered fury brings the press to the doorstep and sends his grieving mother to the sanctuary of a remote Scottish village.
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Touching, Cathartic, Thought-Provoking
- By Ian C on 20-11-16
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Trumpet
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-02-12
- Language: English
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Red Dust Road
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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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, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, the courageous revelatory journey that Jackie Kay undertakes in Red Dust Road is full of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions.
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Absolutely superb
- By bookwormbadger on 26-01-14
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Red Dust Road
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-09-11
- Language: English
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Bessie Smith
- By: Jackie Kay
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, she sang on street corners before becoming a big name in travelling shows. In 1923 she made her first recording for a new start-up called Columbia Records. It sold 780,000 copies and made her a star. Smith's life was notoriously difficult. As a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, Jackie Kay found in Bessie someone with whom she could identify and who she could idolise. In this remarkable book Kay mixes biography, fiction, poetry and prose to create an enthralling account of an extraordinary life.
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Bessie Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 16-02-21
- Language: English
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Bantam
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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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. 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 story. Kay shows how old injuries can emerge years later; how we bear and absorb the loss of friends; how we celebrate and welcome new life; and how we embody our times, whether we want to or not.
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Bantam
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 16-11-17
- Language: English
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The Lamplighter
- By: Jackie Kay
- Length: 5 hrs
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The Lamplighter takes us on a journey through the dark heart of slavery. Produced both as a radio and stage play, it also reads as a stirring and a multi-layered poem. Four women and one man tell the story of their lives through slavery, from the the fort, to the slave ship, through the middle passage, following life on the plantations, charting the growth of the British city and the industrial revolution.
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The Lamplighter
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 05-08-21
- 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
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In Jackie Kay’s first collection of stories, ordinary lives are transformed by secrets. Her world might seem familiar – sex, death and family cast long shadows – but the roles of mothers, daughters and lovers are imagined and revealed in the most surprising of ways. Jackie Kay sees the extraordinary in everyday life, and lights it up with humour and generosity in a way that is uniquely her own.
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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: 09-05-13
- Language: English
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Reality, Reality
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Anna Bentinck, Rachael Loiuse Miller, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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This is a book about memories, love, sex and the power of the imagination to see us through the most difficult times. The women of Reality, Reality are mesmerising, whether in love or in solitude. Jackie Kay’s newest and most luminous of collections is full of compassion, generosity, sorrow, and joy. In 15 extraordinary stories, she celebrates the richness and power of dream-life to inspire, to repair, and to make real.
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amazing short stories.
- By Kindle Customer on 01-11-20
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Reality, Reality
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Anna Bentinck, Rachael Loiuse Miller, Cathleen McCarron, Caroline Guthrie
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-04-13
- Language: English
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Desperado's Gold
- By: Jackie R. Kays, Teel James Glenn
- Narrated by: Scott Sutherland
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Buck Horton's brother was an outlaw. The only thing he left Buck of any value was a secret, the hiding place of stolen gold. Buck vowed to find the gold or die trying. And on the latter, men on both sides of the law are more than willing to oblige him.
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Desperado's Gold
- Narrated by: Scott Sutherland
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-03-16
- 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
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Wish I was Here features tales of passion and jealousy, lust and romance from the award-winning author of Red Dust Road. This fierce, funny, and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winning directness, Jackie Kay captures her characters' greatest joys and greatest vulnerabilities, exposing the moments of tenderness, of shock, of bravery, and of stupidity that accompany the search for love, the discovery of love and, most of all, love's loss.
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Wish I Was Here
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Forbes Masson, Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-05-12
- Language: English
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