'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 family cast long shadows -- but the roles of mothers, daughters and lovers are imagined and revealed in [...]

The 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 to make things real, and celebrate, most of all, those who dare to dream.[...]

This wide ranging collection of plays by black British playwrights features six key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from 1979 to the present. It contains classic plays from each of the last three decades of the twentieth century and three from the first decade of the t[...]

Humour, 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" brings together into a vibrant new book many favourite poems from her four Bloodaxe collections, "The Ad[...]

In a stunning collection of essays, poems and fiction, the top writers and thinkers from the UK and the USA explore what it means to live in a city today. Through backstreets, highways and homes, we find out what makes up the environments we live in. We look at the psychogeography and history of [...]