Benjamin Myers has won the Society of Authors Tom Gallon Trust Award for his short story, 'The Folk song, singer.' This is his third national literary award in twelve months. *The Northern Writers' Award 2013 *PIG IRON won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize 2013 *Tom Gallon Award 2014. Bluemoose Books publishes Ben's fourth novel BEASTINGS … [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.
BEASTINGS by Benjamin Myers
'A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rural England. When a teenage girl leaves the workhouse and abducts a child placed in her care, the local priest is called upon to retrieve them. Chased through the Cumbrian mountains of a distant past, the girl fights starvation and the elements, encountering the hermits, farmers and hunters who occupy the remote hillside communities.'
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WOUNDING by Heidi James
'Cora has everything a woman is supposed to want - a career, a caring husband, children, and a stylish house. Desperate for release and burdened with guilt she falls into a pattern of ever increasing violence and sexual degradation till a one night stand tips her over the edge and she finds herself in a dominatrix's dungeon.'
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STRANGER THAN KINDNESS by Mark A. Radcliffe
Jo Brand - 'STRANGER THAN KINDNESS is funny, poignant intelligent and compelling. I believe books are like stepping into little alternative worlds floating in your mind and this world was one I wanted to stay in much longer.'
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CHICKEN'S LIB by Clare Druce
CHICKENS’ LIB is amusing, poignant, disturbing and as a social history essential to the understanding of the animal rights movement and food security. As such it is a pointer to what is happening in the food industry today and recent scandals make Chickens’ Lib an essential read.
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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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