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LinkRoute Offline - A festival of Short Stories
Route Offline is a festival of contemporary stories that brings together in printed form a series of distinguished collections which were initially published online. The twenty-five stories included here take you around the world in the safety of your own book and in the hands of first class story-tellers. Order it now or get it as part of your subscription. Click here for details of this year's subscription programme and click here for details of Route Offline.

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LinkBringing It All Back Home
When you hear a certain song, where does it take you? What is the secret that connects music to our lives? Heart warming, moving and laugh out loud funny, Bringing It All Back Home is the truest book you will ever read about music and the things that really matter. 'One of the best books about popular music ever written' is how Record Collector described it.

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To complement our byteback book programme, we have now published a series of free e-books in a format designed to be read on screen. A large of handful of free e-books have been posted, including Harold Pinter's Art, Truth and Politics, M Y Alam's Apocalypse Not Just Now, a series of top quality short story collections and a sample of Howl for Now.

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Download or listen online to a live recording taken from a conversation between M Y Alam and Michael Stewart at the Huddersfield Literature Festival about Made in Bradford, a book that brings together a series conversations between M Y Alam and a series of British Pakistani men. In his introduction, M Y Alam writes that this book ‘rehumanises those who have been in various ways and at various historical moments, intentionally or not, dehumanised.’

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LinkThe Freewheel - Interview and MP3s
Warehouse author and Budists front man Clayton Devanny has teamed up with partner Lora Midgley to form The Freewheel, producing soulful and tender songs that combine sophisticated song writing with the most beautiful harmonies imaginable. Here Clayton and Laura talk a little about their music, songs, what inspires them and their plans for the future. Plus a selection of MP3s to listen to and download.

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An intertwining of poetry and music in the this outstanding 10 track CD. 'If you don't want the truth don't call a poet, at least not a real one.' Martin Newell of The Independent


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Bonne Route

Bonne Route
Issue number 19 in Route's series of contemporary stories. This collection of modern tales illustrate that it is often the smallest of things that bring about significant detours in life’s journey – a joke, a letter, a photograph, a drink, a dream.
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Special introductory offer on Route novels. Try Kilo by M Y Alam and Jack and Sal by Anthony Cropper together for £15
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Ideas Above Our Station

Ideas Above Our Station
Short Stories. Someone is waiting for a train, or it could be a bus or an aeroplane. They are alone. For company, in their coat pocket they are carrying a book of stories. They sit down and take out the book. It falls open on the first page of a new story. What would be the perfect read for them to find there?
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