Red Dust Road
Published on 10. August 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-78682-992-4 (ISBN)
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Growing up in 70s Scotland as the adopted mixed raced child of a Communist couple, young Jackie blossoms into an outspoken, talented poet. Then she decides to find her birth parents...
Based on the soul-searching memoir by Scots Makar Jackie Kay, Red Dust Road takes you on a journey from Nairn to Lagos, 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 Scots Makar Jackie Kay, Red Dust Road takes you on a journey from Nairn to Lagos, 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
119 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78682-992-4 (9781786829924)
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Tanika Gupta has written for theatre, radio, film and television. Aside from the works published by Oberon , her stage plays include Voices On The Wind (NT Studio), Skeleton (Soho Theatre), On The Couch With Enoch (Red Room - BAC) and The Waiting Room (NT) which won the John Whiting Award. She has also translated Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan for the National Theatre Education Touring and written plays for Theatre Royal Stratford East's Young Actor's Company Brood and Squid . Tanika is an Honorary Fellow at Rose Bruford College and was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008 for Services to Drama.