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Book Launch – Away From the Light of Day

idaley — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:49:47 +0000

Route are delighted to announce An evening with Amadou and Mariam to launch their autobiography Away From the Light of Day. The event will include readings by Ian Clayton and a Q & A with Andy Morgan.

WATERSTONE’S PICCADILLY, LONDON
Monday, 17 May 2010, 7:00PM
Tickets £3, redeemable against purchase of the book on the evening

Further details: 0207 851 2400

For an advance preview of book, click here

Free eBook – Herta Müller Nobel Lecture

idaley — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:16:35 +0000

In Romania, Herta Müller is a German, in Germany she is a Romanian. It is this sense of eternal outsider that she carries with her all the way to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm. For those of you who missed it when it went past, we’ve posted a short video of her time in Stockholm and an eBook of her Nobel Lecture, including an interview and an introduction by Georgia Brown. It’s a remarkable event and one which writers may take a great deal of inspiration from.

‘DO YOU HAVE A HANDKERCHIEF was the question my mother asked me every morning, standing by the gate to our house, before I went out onto the street. I didn’t have a handkerchief. And because I didn’t, I would go back inside and get one. I never had a handkerchief because I would always wait for her question. The handkerchief was proof that my mother was looking after me in the morning. For the rest of the day I was on my own.’

In Every Word Knows Something of a Vicious Circle Herta Müller describes how living under a dictatorship shapes her work. She outlines how words and writing allowed her to turn humiliation into a type of dignity that takes time to arouse suspicion.

Click here for more.

New Fiction Titles Released

idaley — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:29:30 +0000

La Rochelle by Michael Nath and The Route Book at Bedtime are officially released this week. Both titles are now available as eBooks.

‘The writing, which is clever, witty and ambitious throughout, becomes shot through with a wonderfully oneiric unpredictability. Nath can entertain with a whole page on different interpretations of what is meant by “a while”, and many of his similes and observations are original, funny and absolutely spot-on.’ – The Independent

Paperback: £6.99 eBook: £4.99

‘A twilight dreamscape of hopes, fears, love and loss, The Route Book at Bedtime contains twelve highly individual, contemporary tales, all of which are a reflection of life and truth. A highly enjoyable read. It’s a collection containing stories which are at once stunningly original and familiar. Just don’t plan on getting any sleep once you open the cover…’ – The Short Review

Paperback: £6.99 eBook: £4.99

Click the book covers for more details and to order.

Writers – Submission Guidelines Open

idaley — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:49:11 +0000

A Few Good Books – Writers Submission Guidelines
Following a brief interruption, we’re pleased to reopen our submission guidelines. As part of our ongoing publishing programme we have a genuine opportunity for a few good books. Our new guidelines reflect this and we’re hoping for a few standout book proposals. Click here for the guidelines.

Michael Nath Interview
Michael Nath answers questions on his novel La Rochelle. ‘I was trying to write a novel that wasn’t too much like a “novel”. It had to have the qualities of life instead, such as thickness, abundance, presence, a degree of untidiness. I was after something baroque and dishevelled, with a coat of varnish.’

Short Story Reading
Sarah Butler reads her story ‘Rainbows Seen From the Air Are Complete Circles’ originally published in Wonderwall. Listen online or download MP3.

iTunes
iTunes users can get access to our short story audio through our iTunes feed. Click here for details.

Some Girls’ Mothers Dates
Some Girls’ Mothers have two performance dates in March, in Leeds and Kendall. Their book is now also available as an eBook.

Read – Notes from authors on inspiration behind bedtime stories

idaley — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:15:00 +0000

A series of small interviews with the authors featured in The Route Book at Bedtime has just been posted on route-online.com

The Route Book at Bedtime (Route 22) is a book of 12 stories that aims to capture those moments of deep emotional significance which return to us in our dreams. But what is the story behind the stories? Here 11 of the authors talk about the inspiration behind the work.

Click here to read the interviews.

Click here for more on The Route Book at Bedtime.

New eBook – A Just and Lasting Peace

idaley — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:36:44 +0000

We start the new decade with the man most likely to shape it. ‘Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future.’ Barack Obama’s Nobel lecture in full sets out a course of action for the coming ten years.

Barack Obama’s election as US President in 2008 was greeted with a euphoria unprecedented in recent times, not just from the people of his own country but from people all around the world. The investment of hope placed in him was cemented when in 2009 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his ‘extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples’.

Eleven months into his presidency, it would be natural if a man’s ideology had been softened by the realities of responsibility. In this Nobel lecture, Obama balances his responsibilities as commander-in-chief of the world’s sole superpower with his mandate for hope, reconciliation and human progress. Marking the end of a shameful first decade of this century, he draws carefully from his own personal and national history, and sets out a pragmatic manifesto of his global responsibilities and a outlines a promise of a new kind of leadership.

Available as epub (Sony reader, iPhone etc) and pdf ebook formats.

Click here to get your free copy.

New Book – The Route Book at Bedtime

idaley — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:58:02 +0000

The Route Book at Bedtime (Route 22) is now available. The book is officially released in Spring 2010 but we have made advance copies available from our website should you like to get in their first. Always a special moment for us when we release one of these titles.

This title marks a full decade of the Route Series of Contemporary Stories. We hope the series has captured an element of living through these times at a human and social level. The Route Book at Bedtime is an apt conclusion to this period in our history, time for bed and reflection.

Special website price of £6.99 for advance copies. Click here for details.

Listen – Significant to Bradley

idaley — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:52:29 +0000

Michael Nath was at Route HQ recently discussing the final draft of his novel La Rochelle. We took the opportunity to record Michael reading his short story ‘Significant to Bradley’, published in the book Wonderwall.

Click here to listen.

Michael’s debut novel La Rochelle

Book – Who’s The Daddy

idaley — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:10:35 +0000

New free eBook. Who’s The Daddy is a mini-collection of three father and daughter short stories set around the time when a daughter begins to lose her innocence. Suddenly she’s not Daddy’s little girl anymore.

Features contributions from Mark Czanik, Celeste Robichaud and Tim Sanders.

Published in EPUB (Sony Reader, iPhone etc) and PDF. Click here for more details.

Read – Palestine Journal

idaley — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:55:27 +0000

Human Rights activist and translator Ann Wright is currently in Jerusalem, where she was sent by the Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) to participate in the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). She is writing a journal of what she witnesses, there will be five in total which will be posted as articles on this website as they come in.

Click here to access the journals.