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Musicport Festival Book of Stories
November 17, 2011
Less than a fortnight ago, Route assembled a team of writers to gather stories told at the Musicport World Music festival in Bridlington, a small port on the Yorkshire coast. Ian Clayton and Ian Daley have now assembled those stories into a book
Introducing our next great novelist… Sophie Coulombeau
October 10, 2011
Winner of Route’s Young Author competition revealed, plus a round up of some new free content and a special preview event for Ada Wilson’s new book Red Army Faction Blues
La Rochelle up for major literary prize
May 25, 2011
News that La Rochelle by Michael Nath has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, one of the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language and Britain’s oldest literary award. Plus writers news, with an update on the Few Good Books submission round.
Route to Bolivia
April 26, 2011
New items of Bolivian related content have been posted on this website. Paul Laverty’s ‘Even the Rain’, Vargas Llosa’s free eBook ‘In Praise of Reading and Fiction’ and an account of Ann Wright’s trip in Che Guevara’s Bolivian footsteps.
New Book – The Invisible Village
March 17, 2011
New book released. The Invisible Village: Small world, big society. Edited by M Y Alam.
The Invisible Village paints a vivid picture of everyday life in modern urban society with a series of insights and views of the world that may help us all make greater sense of it.
New Book – Route Irish
March 4, 2011
The book of the film Route Irish, written by Paul Laverty and Directed by Ken Loach, will be released on 7 March 2011. ‘Channels Loach’s righteous anger at the grotesque carnival of the Iraq war.’ – Time Out.
Kindle Surprise
December 24, 2010
For anyone lucky enough to presented with a shiny new book reading toy, a selection of Route books are available on Kindle. These books are perfect food for your new machine, whether that’s a Kindle itself, or via the Kindle app on an iPad, iPhone, Android Phone, PC or Mac. As a very special Christmas offer The Route Book at Bedtime is just £3.44.
Seasonal Gift Suggestions
December 7, 2010
A few seasonal gift suggestions from Route, with added discounts on our best selling books. Wishing everyone a happy holiday.
Book Launch – Away From the Light of Day
April 28, 2010
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.
Free eBook – Herta Müller Nobel Lecture
April 23, 2010
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.