Jackie Kay

Elaine C Smith with Sadie Frost during rehearsals of Red Dust Road

Elaine C Smith on how little girl from rehearsals grew up to be Scotland’s Makar and what it’s like to be playing her mum

August 12, 2019

A selection of this year's top books (Andrew Cawley / DC Thomson)

The books of 2018: We ask some famous faces to choose their favourite page-turner of the last 12 months

November 27, 2018

Arthur Roberts, left, and one of the frontline drawings taken from soldier’s diary which was found years later in an attic

Scotland’s Makar Jackie Kay writes special verses saluting one of the brave, black British heroes hidden in history

October 29, 2018

Scotland's Makar Jackie Kay (Pic: Denise Else)

Scots national poet Jackie Kay hails Anne Bronte in memorial to literary sisters

June 19, 2018

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