Awards

• Short-listed for National Book Awards Biography of the Year 2011
• Short-listed for National Book Awards Biography of the Year 2011 (UK)
• Short-listed for Saltire Society Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011
• Short-listed for Scottish Book Awards Non-fiction Award 2011
• Short-listed for Scottish Book Awards Non-fiction Award 2011 (UK)
• Short-listed for Specsavers National Book Awards: Autobiography/Biography of the Year 2011
• Shortlisted for Saltire Society Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011.
• Shortlisted for Specsavers National Book Awards: Autobiography/Biography of the Year 2011.
• Winner of Scottish Book of the Year Award 2011
• Winner of Scottish Book of the Year Award 2011.

Overview

Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping memoir of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny. With an introduction by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes 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, Jackie Kay's journey in Red Dust Road is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love. 'Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read' - Independent

Full Product Details

Author:   Jackie Kay
Publisher:   Pan Macmillan
Imprint:   Picador
Edition:   Main Market Ed.
Volume:   67
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.269kg
ISBN:  

9781509858392

ISBN 10:   1509858393
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   19 October 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Reviews

It is Kay's abundant wit that makes Red Dust Road such a moving, spirited work. This is a terrifically easy, evocative, and often amusing read . . . A remarkable, soul-searching journey * Sunday Herald * Wonderful, humane . . . This is a book with resolution, determination and honesty * Scotland on Sunday * A clear-eyed, witty and unsentimental account of the push and pull between nature and nurture. Happiness shines through * Sunday Times *

A clear-eyed, witty and unsentimental account of the push and pull between nature and nurture. Happiness shines through Sunday Times Wonderful, humane ... This is a book with resolution, determination and honesty Scotland on Sunday It is Kay's abundant wit that makes Red Dust Road such a moving, spirited work. This is a terrifically easy, evocative, and often amusing read ... A remarkable, soul-searching journey Sunday Herald

Author Information

Author Website:   https://twitter.com/jackiekaypoet

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. She is a poet, novelist and writer of short stories and has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children. Her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Prize and is a modern classic. She has published several collections of stories with Picador, including Why Don't You Stop Talking and Wish I Was Here. She teaches at Newcastle University, and lives in Manchester.

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Author Website:   https://twitter.com/jackiekaypoet

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