Authors
Clinton Heylin
Clinton Heylin is one of the leading rock historians in the world, with over two dozen books to his name. These include biographies of Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen and Sandy Denny. Route publish Clinton’s account of Bob Dylan’s gospel years, Trouble In Mind; the infamous turning electric era of 1965/66, JUDAS!; a history of Fairport Convention and English folk-rock, What We Did Instead of Holidays; and his explosive look at the birth of punk, Anarchy in the Year Zero.
Paul Hanley
Paul Hanley was the drummer in Manchester legends The Fall from 1980-85 and now plays with Brix & The Extricated. He’s currently completing his English degree with the Open University and occasionally writes for Louder Than War. He’s married with three children and once got 21 on Ken Bruce’s ‘Popmaster’.
Steve Hanley
Steve Hanley is a legendary bass player best known for his time with iconic Manchester band The Fall.
Tom Hingley
Tom Hingley was born in 1965 in Abingdon, Oxford, the seventh and youngest child of an Oxford Don. Moving to Manchester in the mid 1980s, he took a job as a glass collector at the Hacienda before rising to fame in the early 90s as lead-singer with Inspiral Carpets, with whom he toured the world and sold over a million records before leaving the band in 2011. Carpet Burns is a memoir of his time with Inspiral Carpets.
Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah is a bestselling crime fiction writer and poet. Her psychological thrillers are published around the world in many languages. Sophie’s fifth collection of poetry, Pessimism for Beginners, was shortlisted for the 2007 TS Eliot Award.
Her stories feature in Ideas Above Our Station and Bonne Route.
Aritha van Herk
Aritha van Herk lives and works in Calgary, western Canada. She has published five novels: Judith, which received the Seal First Novel Award; The Tent Peg; No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey; Places Far From Ellesmere; and Restlessness. Her story ‘Hide and Seak’ appears in Light Transports.
Chenjerai Hove
Chenjerai Hove is a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and columnist. For his contribution to the struggle for freedom of expression and social justice, Hove was awarded the 2001 German-Afrika Prize which is sponsored by a German parliamentary committee on international relations. His story ‘The Sacrifice’ features in Light Transports
Chris Hill
Chris Hill works in communications and has a background in newspaper journalism as a reporter, news editor and editor. He has won a number of short story prizes including the Bridport Prize and his recent novel The Longing was shortlisted for the Daily Telegraph first novel prize. His story ‘So Which is the Way From Here?’ features in The Route Book at Bedtime.
Steven Hall
Steven Hall was born in Derbyshire in 1975 and studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Steven’s first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, is a story about love, loss, language and a conceptual shark and is published by Cannongate. His story ‘Ten Tickets’ features in Light Transports.
Winifred Holtby
Winifred Holtby wrote as a journalist for more than twenty newspapers and magazines, including The Yorkshire Post, the Manchester Guardian, the feminist journal, Time and Tide, and a regular weekly article for the trade union magazine, The Schoolmistress. She also produced a critical study of Virginia Woolf and a volume of short stories, Truth is Not Sober. Winifred’s story ‘The Celebrity Who Failed’ features in Light Transports.