Bluemoose author, Socrates Adams, has been named Young Bookseller of the Year at The Bookseller Industry Awards, which took place at the Hilton, Park Lane, London, on Monday. The award acknowledges the talents of the rising stars of the bookselling world. Its criteria focuses on an ability to create imaginative displays, to engage with customers … [Read More...]
Welcome to Bluemoose Books, an independent publisher based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. We started in 2006 as an antidote to all the celebrity publishing that was appearing in the bookshops. New writers and writing should be the lifeblood of publishing, and we delight in finding new stories that are beautifully written to engage and inspire the reader. We hope you like what you see.
A MODERN FAMILY by Socrates Adams
Television’s most popular car show presenter lives his life in the shadow of his career and his persona. He has the perfect job. He doesn’t have the perfect family. His wife retches in the bathrooms of exclusive restaurants; his daughter’s obsession with a friend is consuming her; his son lives a double life selling pornography by day and gaming on-line by night.
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NOD By Adrian Barnes
Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no-one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no-one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand can still sleep, and they've all shared the same strange, golden dream. A handful of children still sleep as well, but what they're dreaming remains a mystery.
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PIG IRON by Benjamin Myers
John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his bare-knuckle boxer father, King of Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead pulls him into the dark recesses of a northern town where his family name is mud.
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STOP DON’T READ THIS by Leonora Rustamova
Leonora Rustamova wrote a book for six teenagers. The students were at risk of being excluded but Leonora managed to keep them in school until after they finished their exams. She was praised and promoted for her book, until it appeared on the Internet, by mistake.
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THE HARDEST CLIMB by Dr. Alistair Sutcliffe
After becoming the first man to conquer the highest peak on each of the seven continents at the first attempt, Alistair's hardest climb was surviving a brain haemorrhage.
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GABRIEL’S ANGEL by Mark A. Radcliffe
Gabriel Bell is a grumpy 44-year-old web journalist irritated by the accumulating disappointments of life. He and his girlfriend Ellie want to start a family but Gabriel has so few sperm he can name them and knit them flippers. So it's IVF, which is expensive.
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KING CROW by Michael Stewart
Paul Cooper is an outsider. When he looks at people he wonders what bird they are. He finds making friends difficult especially when he has to move from school to school, so he obsesses about ornithology until he meets Ashley.
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