Dave Pescod Q&A

Dave Pescod answers questions about his book All Embracing and Other Stories Q. What was the inspiration for ‘All Embracing’? A few years back I’d ended a relationship and was waiting in Liverpool Street Station watching people meet and greet, hugging each other affectionately. It was Christmas and there were large groups gathering and embracing [...]

Musicport Festival Book

Stories From A World Of Music. 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. The result is a quirky, moving [...]

Sample Story – The Invisible Village

‘Thanks to the astuteness of Alam’s ability to weave individual stories into one coherent protagonist, there’s enough here to give even the most elusive Whitehall cost-cutter a chance to understand what it is to be a community.’ – Philip Wood, The Student Journals. Here’s a sample of one of the individual stories from The Invisible [...]

The Invisible Village

In a Britain that is still said to be characterised by increasing segregation, deprivation and social divisions, the Big Society aims to create a climate that empowers people and communities to help themselves. But when we talk about what’s best for our neighbourhoods, how often do we look beyond the headlines to see the reality [...]