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Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 2:04 pm
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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.

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Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:46 pm
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Sarah Butler reading her short story ‘Rainbows Seen From The Air Are Complete Circles’. Originally published in Wonderwall

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Monday, February 8, 2010, 12:13 pm
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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.’

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Monday, February 1, 2010, 1:57 pm
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A small blog entry marking the tenth year anniversary of Route’s publications. Introducing the Graphomaniacs (Route 1) was published on 1 February 2000.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 3:31 pm
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A series of small interviews with the authors featured in The Route Book at Bedtime has 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? In this feature, 10 of the authors talk about the inspiration behind the work. Here are a few samples.

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 3:24 pm
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A Review of The Train of Ice and Fire features in Candela, the newly launched magazine for Latin and Spanish lifestyle in the UK.

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Monday, January 18, 2010, 1:43 pm
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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

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Thursday, December 17, 2009, 8:01 pm
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A video of the launch event for Michael Nath’s novel La Rochelle, held at 309 Regent Street, London. Includes a short reading from the book. (8:50)

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 12:15 pm
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New of the unveiling of Michael Nath’s novel La Rochelle, plus an editors note from Ian Daley about working on the book and the profound impact it had on him.

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 2:20 pm
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A review of the twentysomething short story book Born in the 1980s from James Hogg at Inpress. Born in the 1980s is now available for the Sony Reader, iPhone etc in Epub format.

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Monday, November 30, 2009, 4:44 pm
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A note from editor Ian Daley on the publication of The Route Book at Bedtime, a title that marks a decade of the Route series of contemporary stories.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009, 10:36 am
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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 delightful short story ‘Significant to Bradley’, the piece of writing that first alerted us to his talents and which we subsequently published in the book Wonderwall. Below is the recording, [...]

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Friday, November 20, 2009, 11:55 am
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As an aperitif for the release of The Route Book at Bedtime (Route 22) we are delighted to present three new short stories for free download. Who’s The Daddy is a mini-collection themed around father/daughter relationships, particularly around the moment when the daughter is in the transition period from being a little girl to becoming [...]

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Thursday, October 15, 2009, 10:18 am
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Mark Gwynne Jones’ city rattles to the undertones of a diesel engine and sings like ‘a sparrow of fog and fumes and the time when he was cock of the world. Yes the city is a drunk. Harbouring hurt.’ Performed as encore at the Kings Arms in Salford.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 3:46 pm
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Ramon Chao will be talking about The Train of Ice and Fire at the Colombiage Festival this weekend at the Riverside Studios in London. To mark the occasion we’ve released another clip from An Evening With Ramón, this one includes his story of getting a Mano Negra tattoo.

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Thursday, October 8, 2009, 9:00 am
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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, all of which will be posted as articles on the Route website as they come in.

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Friday, October 2, 2009, 12:26 pm
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It’s all about hugging. 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)

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Monday, September 7, 2009, 1:34 pm
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Ian Clayton turned fifty on Friday. To celebrate he organised an audacious birthday bash down at his local boozer, with a host of very special musical guests. Amongst them was Clayton Devanny and Lora Midgley of The Freewheel. Here they are performing two songs from the night, ‘Home’ and the wonderful ‘Everything Reminds Me Of Something’, a song that was written in response to Ian’s book, Bringing It All Back Home.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 2:58 pm
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A new video from M S Green presents another extract from his gutsy novel Tin Hats, this time it’s a glimpse of a combative school football game.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 12:58 pm
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Our short story anthology Ideas Above Our Station (Route 18) has been nominated in the August round of The People’s Book Prize. This book is very special to us. The title makes us laugh, it’s a good fit. Whenever we stand at book stalls, it’s usually the best seller. This prize offers it a small chance of a different kind of acknowledgement.