Latest Updates
Writers – Submission Guidelines Open
February 25, 2010
Following a brief interruption, we’re pleased to reopen our submission guidelines. Plus news of a Michael Nath interview, Sarah Butler short story recording, iTunes feed and Some Girls’ Mothers dates and eBook.
Read – Notes from authors on inspiration behind bedtime stories
January 27, 2010
A series of small interviews with the authors featured in The Route Book at Bedtime, 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.
New eBook – A Just and Lasting Peace
January 18, 2010
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. Available as epub (Sony reader, iPhone etc) and pdf ebook formats.
New Book – The Route Book at Bedtime
November 30, 2009
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.
Listen – Significant to Bradley
November 23, 2009
New short story reading uploaded to the site. 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.
Book – Who’s The Daddy
November 18, 2009
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. Published in EPUB (Sony Reader, iPhone etc) and PDF.
Read – Palestine Journal
October 7, 2009
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.
Watch – All Embracing
October 1, 2009
A film of Dave Pescod’s short story ‘All Embracing’ made by Andrew Love. In this very moving short, a woman targets London train stations with military precision in search of a full body embrace with strangers. (5:05)
New Audio – There is a Saviour
July 30, 2009
A new short story audio recording has been uploaded, There is a Saviour by Wayne Price. It’s an hypnotic reading that follows Leyden, divorced and in a quarrelsome relationship with his student son, as he reluctantly embarks on an embarrassing cross-country drive from Edinburgh to Kettick in the rain to move his son’s sixteen year old live-in girlfriend back to her father. Click listen from the menu above.
News – Route on Twitter
July 27, 2009
Sucked along by the vortex of the phenomena, we’ve just signed up to Twitter. After months of distance and procrastination, the sign-up came on like a rush of blood to the head. We’re in now and looking to find our way. If you’d care to join us, we’d be delighted to see you. We’re here http://twitter.com/Routebooks