Khalil Khan was a good boy. He had a certain past and an equally certain future awaited until gangsters decided to turn his world upside down. They shattered his safe family life with baseball bats but that's only just the beginning. They turned good, innocent and honest Khalil into someone else: Kilo, a much more unforgiving and determined piece of work. Kilo cuts his way through the underworld of Bradford street crime, but the closer he gets to the top of that game, the stronger the pull of his original values become. When he finally begins to rub shoulders with the men who inadvertently showed him the allure of crime, the more convinced he becomes that it is sometimes necessary to do bad in order to achieve good.

Kilo

Literature & Fiction

Alam, M. Y.

Contemporary

Route

It is the theme of discovery that is at the heart of Moveable Type. Rommi Smith takes the reader on a journey through identity, language and memory, via England and America, with sharp observation, wit and wry comment en route. The insights and revelations invite us to not only look beneath the surface of the places we live in, but also ourselves. This collection from poet Rommi Smith comes complete with an outstanding performance CD capturing Rommi at her best with her magnificent band of musicians.

Moveable Type

Smith, Rommi

Poetry

If that goal in Paris had been allowed then everything that followed could have been different. For young Stephen Bottomley something died that night. One Northern Soul follows the fortunes of this Leeds United fan as he comes of age in the dark days of the early eighties with no prospects, no guidance, and to cap it all off, his beloved football team suffers relegation to the Second Division. J R Endeacott has drawn a story that captures the mood of a time and a place, bottling the atmosphere of the terrace in its final days as disaster was about to strike and bring about wholesale and lasting change.

One Northern Soul

Endeacott, J. R.

This bumper issue #14 from Route brings together further chronicles of contemporary preoccupations. Presented in three distinct collections: Criminally Minded, Something Has Gone Wrong In The World and Next Stop Hope - this anthology of new writing takes you skilfully through the inner workings of the criminal mind, the nuances of human relationships and our personal connections with an increasingly disturbing world, where hope is hard to find.

Next Stop Hope: Magazine Of New Writers

M.Y. Alam

Introduces Mark Gwynne Jones and the space between our thoughts. Drawing on an ancient tradition, these captivating and slightly mad, mind altering poems tackle the complexities of our changing world with a beautiful and savage humour.

Psychicbread

Jones, Mark Gwynne

The author loves jazz, blues, rock, soul, the works.  He'll go virtually anywhere in the world for a positive musical experience: a festival in Ireland, a hole-in-the-wall in New Delhi, a record store in, well, anywhere. . . Sometimes charming, sometimes rambling."" Kirkus Reviews 11/15/07

Bringing It All Back Home

Ian Clayton

Literary

The author loves jazz, blues, rock, soul, the works. He'll go virtually anywhere in the world for a positive musical experience: a festival in Ireland, a hole-in-the-wall in New Delhi, a record store in, well, anywhere. . . Sometimes charming, sometimes rambling."" Kirkus Reviews 11/15/07

Biographies & Memoirs

Clayton, Ian

Arts & Literature

Colombia, November 1993: a reconstructed old passenger train, bespangled with yellow butterflies, is carrying one hundred musicians, acrobats, and artists on a daring adventure through the heart of a country soaked in violence. The intention is to put on free shows for locals at railway stations along the way: vibrant spectacles involving music, trapeze, tattoo-art, an ice museum and, star of the show, Roberto the fire-breathing dragon. Leading this crusade of hope is Manu Chao with his band Mano Negra. Ramón Chao is on board to chronicle the journey. As the train climbs 1,000 kilometers from Santa Marta on the Caribbean Coast to Bogotá in the Altiplano, Ramón keeps one eye on the fluctuating morale of the train's eccentric cargo, and the other on the ever-changing physical and social landscape.

The Train of Ice and Fire: Mano Negra in Colombia

Travel

Chao, Ramón

Travel Writing

Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers. His chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don't help, but it is Eric's own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved thirty years ago? Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink. In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend from foreign parts to challenge a lost postman to make that journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past. As the Chinese, and one Frenchman, say, `He who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six.'

Looking for Eric

Laverty, Paul

Barratt, Joss

Dramas & Plays

Presenting twelve bedtime stories for adult reading that capture those moments of deep emotional significance that return to us in our dreams. This nocturnal collection reveals intimate insights into individual fantasy, the pursuit of our deepest desires, the urge to escape, the pull of love, the debris of days.

The Route Book at Bedtime (Route Series of Contemporary Stories)

Daley, Ian

Short Stories & Anthologies

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Books by Route

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Kilo

Moveable Type

One Northern Soul

Next Stop Hope: Magazine Of New Writers

Psychicbread

Bringing It All Back Home

Bringing It All Back Home

The Train of Ice and Fire: Mano Negra in Colombia

Looking for Eric

The Route Book at Bedtime (Route Series of Contemporary Stories)