Carrie Kills A ManCarrie Kills A Man* is about growing up in a world that doesnt want you, and about how it feels to throw a hand grenade into a perfect life. Its the story of how a tattooed transgender rock singer killed a depressed suburban dad, and of the lessons you learn when you renounce all your privilege and power. When more people think theyve seen a ghost than met a trans person, its easy for bad actors to exploit that and they do, as you can see from the

But twenty-five years in the USA without contact with his family has allowed mutual resentments to mature and trapped Winston in the traumas of his childhood

a love song to the mother

most people

Tait follows the reiver people as they are forced from their rural heartlands into the industrial and post-industrial North East of England in search of work

explores each moment to discover its essence

dealing with prison and discrimination

Interchanging with the chapters written in the narrator’s voice are those narrated by a woman

This is a landscape of tower blocks of huge street lamps that turn the world a shade of greyish orange – beneath which all human activity seems suspect – of winding paths and foot bridges over never quiet motorways

keened a note that held me closer

three plays and countless newspaper and magazine articles

presenting them in the context in which they were made and indicating the special gems among a vast body of recorded work that is one of jazz’s greatest treasures

he continued to write for another fourteen years