Bibliography

Fiction and other literary works

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Shirley MacLaine, The Camino
James Michener, Iberia (contains one chapter about the Camino de Santiago)
Tim Moore, Spanish Steps
Tracy Saunders, Pilgrimage to Heresy (a fictionalised account of the pilgrimage. Suggests, after Professor Henry Chadwick, that the tomb in Compostela may be the burial site of Priscillian, Bishop of Avila, executed for "heresy and witchcraft" by the Romans in 385 AD

Feature Film

“The Way”

Principal Cast:

Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick van Wageningen, James Nesbitt

Director: Emilio Estevez / Country of Origin: USA / Year: 2010

Directed by Emilio Estevez, The Way is set along the thousand-year-old Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route.

It tells the moving story of Tom Avery, played by Martin Sheen, an American father who travels to France to reclaim the body of his estranged son who died in a storm at the start of the famous route in the Pyrenees. Avery cremates his son’s remains, placing them in his backpack, and starts off on the journey his son never made to Santiago.

Link to the official "The Way - The Movie" website.

Screened in Ireland at the Jameson International Dublin Film Festival - 24 Feb 2011

Article from Guardian.co.uk - 02/04/2011

Spanish steps: the ups and downs of the Camino de Santiago