<p><b>A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK<br><br></b><font><b>Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer.</b></font><br><br><b>Scotland''s National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.</b><br><br>''A gem of a book . . . beautiful.'' <b>BERNARDINE EVARISTO</b><br>''A wonderful writer on a magnificent singer.'' <b>ROBERT WYATT<br></b>''Kay¿s book is the amplifier that Smith¿s voice deserves.'' <b><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i></b><br>''The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read.'' <b>IAN CARR, <i>BBC MUSIC</i></b><br><br>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: she drank pints of ¿bathtub gin¿, got into violent fist fights, spent huge sums of money and had pa
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The wartime correspondence which first warmed people's hearts in Simon Garfield's To the Letter, now available in a single volume for readers to follow their wonderful and life-changing journey
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Jackie 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 shaped her. Many of her poems illuminate the stuff of...
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