Blog archive (July 2013)

Check out these lovely pics of the Bluemoose pop-up bookshop at Hebden Bridge train station…

A blue moose holding a copy of A Modern Family at Hebden Bridge station.

Socrates Adams talks to Bluemoose about his brilliantly, painfully funny new novel, A MODERN FAMILY.

Q: In your own words, what is A Modern Family about, and what inspired you to write it?

Since publishing his debut novel with Bluemoose Books, Adrian Barnes has developed an uncanny knack of bumping into blue moose. He nearly ran one over as well, but unfortunately didn’t have his camera to hand when driving.

A Modern Family is spending some quality time in the sun. The characters in Socrates Adams’s brilliantly funny new novel wouldn’t know how to do anything as mundane or as normal as this without a script or medicinal help – so we sent the book instead.

The following photos were all taken in the same place. But where? The first person to correctly identify the large village / town will win a copy of this hilarious new novel. Email your answer to kevin [at] bluemoosebooks [dot] com.

The following is an excerpt from the brilliant new novel, A MODERN FAMILY, by Socrates Adams.

A television presenter drives around a town in England. He stops at red lights, beeps at inconsiderate drivers, correctly applies his brakes, accelerates efficiently, observes the highway code, considers suicide, steers, checks all three mirrors, starts, stops, moves. The television presenter imagines a handsome man driving a high-performance car down a road by an ocean in the sun. He doesn’t care about whether or not he is that man.