Jackie Kay is known and loved for her fiction, her poetry and her plays. In this revelatory and redemptive book, with characteristic generosity and humour, she tells the most inspirational of stories: her own. From Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, the much-anticipated Red Dust Road takes the reader on an intimate and unforgettable journey across continents and time.

Jackie Kay was the author of last year’s hit show THE MAW BROON MONLOGUES which featured Suzanne Bonnar as Maw Broon’s hilarious alter ego.

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. She is a poet, playwright, 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 she has published two collections of stories with Picador, Why Don’t You Stop Talking? and Wish I Was Here. She lives in Manchester.

The evening will also see the return to the Tron stage of Suzanne Bonnar with her smooth bluesy and seductive vocals supported by Alan Brown on the guitar.