So let’s kick things off! In July I will be giving away the four titles that have been shortlisted for The Scottish Book Awards 2011 – find out how to enter the giveaway here! In the non-fiction category, Jackie Kay’s Red Dust Road is one of these titles and I reviewed it a couple of months ago…
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Jackie Kay Books
Drivers salto systems s.l usb devices. Jackie Kay‘s writing oozes ‘normality’, it’s unashamedly honest and at times unapologetically simple. But her personal life has been neither normal nor simple, and her identity has very much influenced her work; a Scottish poet and writer, Kay was born in Edinburgh to a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother. She was adopted at birth by a communist white couple and was brought up in Glasgow.
Red Dust Road
In Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey, Kay tells us about the journey she took to trace her birth parents. Her journey is a metaphorical and physical one: from Glasgow to Milton Keynes to Aberdeen to Nigeria and back again, to the forked roads and the roads not taken and the long winding roads. Emotionally, the journey is a difficult one, and Kay doesn’t take the easy route. Continue reading
Red Dust Road Jackie Kay
Red Dust Road in the Studio - Part 2. Red Dust Road - BLUE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO. Imperial onedrive. Red Dust Road in the Studio - Part 1. May 12, 2014 O.A.R's new single Peace gets the cover treatment from Matt: There are already some great covers of this song, but I felt that none of them so far have got the music quite. Red Dust Road, By Jackie Kay Sidney Poitier, he ain't. Lesley McDowell. Sunday 20 March 2011 01:00. Article bookmarked. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my. From Nairn to Lagos, Red Dust Road takes you on a journey full of heart, humour and deep emotions. Discover how we are shaped by the folk songs we hear as much as by the cells in our bodies. Based on the soul-searching memoir by Jackie Kay, adapted by Tanika Gupta, and directed by Dawn Walton.