Authors
Ada Wilson
Adrian Wilson is a writer, journalist and musician. He signed to a major record label at the age of 16 with his band Strangeways. His novels Red Army Faction Blues, Very Acme and The Righteous Brother are published by Route.
Michael Nath
Michael Nath was brought up in South Wales and Lincolnshire. He is a lecturer in English at the University of Westminster. His major teaching and research interests are in Modernism, as well as in Shakespearean Drama. He has published widely on Wyndham Lewis, in various book collections and journals.
La Rochelle is his first novel. His stories also feature in Wonderwall, Ideas Above our Station, Bonne Route and The Route Book at Bedtime.
Sophie Coulombeau
Sophie Coulombeau was brought up in Manchester. She studied at Trinity College, Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently worked for the British Civil Service in London and the European Commission in Brussels. She is currently reading for a doctorate in English Literature at the University of York. Rites is her first novel.
Steve McKevitt
Steve McKevitt, author of Everything Now, is an expert in marketing, communications and branding. His critically acclaimed book City Slackers revealed how most corporate business nowadays is actually conducted on the assumption that it will be a failure.
Amadou and Mariam
Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia met at an institute for young blind people in Bamako, Mali, and fell in love both musically and romantically. Following several years of performing and releasing cassettes in the their native West Africa, they went on to become stars of the international stage with a string of best selling albums.
Dave Pescod
Dave Pescod studied visual arts and began writing jokes for radio and television. More recently after completing a Royal Literary Fund Mentor scheme he started writing prose. He has had stories published in magazines and broadcast on Radio 4. His debut collection All Embracing and Other Stories is published by Route.
His storie feature in Bonne Route and The Route Book at Bedtime.
Haifa Zangana
Haifa Zangana is an author and activist. She has published three novels and four collections of short stories. She is a founding member of International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS); co-founder of Women Solidarity for an Independent and Unified Iraq and was an advisor for the UNDP report ‘Towards the rise of women in the Arab world’ (2005). She is a weekly columnist for Al Quds Al Arabi, contributes to British and US papers, and lectures regularly on Iraqi literature and women’s issues.
Ian Clayton
Ian Clayton is a jobbing writer, story teller and broadcaster. He loves books, films and music. He is a traveller, a collector, a gatherer and is passionate about finding the voice of the common people. He still lives in the town where he was born and lists his hobbies as tap-room conversation and gentle subversion. Amongst other things he is a recognised authority on the life and works of Billie Holiday, has a fondness for the comedy songs of George Formby and aspires to play blues harmonica like Jimmy Reed.
Ian Daley
Ian Daley was born in Featherstone, West Yorkshire. Destined for a life working underground, he left school during the miners’ strike of 1984 and somehow became a book publisher. He is the founding editor of Route and lives and works in Pontefract with his wife.
IcĂar BollaĂn
IcĂar BollaĂn is an acclaimed film director and actress. She was noiminated for a Goya award for best actress for her role in Leo (2000) and won a Goya for Best Director for her film Te doy mis ojos (Take My Eyes) (2003). She directed her partner Paul Laverty’s script ‘Tambien la Lluvia’ (Even the Rain) (2011) which has received wide acclaim throughout the world.