Books published by Bluemoose Books Ltd

His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story.

GHOST SIGNS is a blistering portrait, an eyewitness account of delivering essential food and medicines to the most deprived communities during the first months of the pandemic. This visceral piece of reportage is an essential document into the effects of COVID-19 and how it ripped apart the social fabric of this country after ten years of Austerity

Mo Moore, estranged daughter of a sex-aid entrepreneur, regards her father as good as dead. And then he really does die and leaves her all his wealth. Stuck in a job in elderly care, newly single, and with nothing and no-one to keep her in England, Mo does what she's always done when things get tough: she runs.

A novel that finally gives a voice to Teha'aman, Tahitian muse and child-bride to painter Paul Gauguin told through the myths and legends of the islands.

John Wilson dreamt of becoming a renowned composer. He sets aside music for literature, writing under the name Anthony Burgess. Decades later, alone once more in Manchester, he encounters three spectres from his past. They refer to him as Our Jackie, and he senses the facade of Burgess begin to crumble.

FALLEN is a tragic tale of a fictional Cork family, set against a nation's crime and its unearthing history.

Sally's son Dan has come back home from college, He wants to live rent free and perform his arts. Sally has taken a career break from teaching, she just needs a rest. Her husband is an ambitious politician and needs a tranquil unexceptional home life but Sally has had enough and does something outrageous.

When three brothers find a dead magpie and peg it to the washing line, the resurrection re-enactment becomes a portent of tragedy to come, and a reminder of past guilt and trauma.

As university term gives way to the summer break she is plagued by dark memories and the only person there for her is her cousin - a cousin that no one else can see - together they embark on a journey that changes Jen and her world forever.

Jimmy Noone walks from one side of a sprawling city to the other, looking for Betwa, a friend he found and lost on the city streets. Jimmy becomes the catalyst for lost lives colliding, exposing stories of tenderness, displacement and tragedy and the subtle threads of commonality which intersect them all, making the invisible, visible again.

The Sound Mirror is an examination of class, war, violence and shame exposed through the rich details of the ordinary lives of three generations of one family.

Lady Gibson shot Mussolini in 1926 & was sent to a mental hospital. Lucia Joyce, daughter of James was a fellow inmate. It is a novel inspired by some of the most interesting women in the history of psychiatry whose identities were shaped by the rhetoric's of men, giving voice to individuals whose screams and whispers can no longer be heard.

A post-postmodern crime novel set on the clean streets of Dublin's leafiest suburb, SLOOT has at its heart an accidental detective who'd rather write his own Celtic-screwball-noir than solve the crime and a narrator who loses the plot, literally.

The Moss House is a passionate story of forbidden love and adventure. Wealthy 19th century landowner and diarist AnneLister, the first modern lesbian, and her lover Ann Walker conduct their courtship and travels whilst battling a society stuck in the past and discover what it means to show the world your true self.

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL is the story of two friends who ordinarily would remain uncelebrated. They change the world differently to the rest of us: we try and change it by effort and force; they change it by discovering the small things they can do well and offering them to others.

Eva and her son Torin have to leave London and move back to Ireland. Eva to find the daughter she left behind and Torin from a life that was threatening his freedom. It is about dislocation and becoming unanchored and the need for a home and belonging and the disturbance when you're wrenched out of your environment.

Raising Sparks is a magical-realist love story set in Modern Israel where shared histories unravel in a story that reveals the hidden worlds behind the headlines.

EVERYWHERE IS SOMEWHERE is a memoir from Naseem Khan, the daughter of an Indian father and German mother, whose seminal book, The Art Britain ignores, framed the argument that by dismissing or ignoring `minority arts' in Britain, the UK was depriving itself of one of the most enriching features of its artistic life.

When an award-winning journalist is accused of fabrication and crimes against national security, nothing in his life makes sense, including the disappearance twenty years ago of his best friend. When a body is discovered in a Kent orchard, he begins to question everything he has ever believed to be true.

A gull falls from the sky and strikes a council worker on the Essex beach below. He is obsessed, a crazed visionary repeatedly depicting the scene and the unknown figure within in it who filled his view at the moment of impact

It is 1981, factories are closing, unemployment is high, the NF are marching and the neglected inner cities are ablaze as riots breakout across Thatcher's fractured Britain. The Agarwals are facing their own personal nightmare but their pain is eased by family, friendships and a community that refuses to disappear.

THE LESS THAN PERFECT LEGEND OF DONNA CREOSOTE is a modern fairy tale from the inner city, where the mundane becomes fantastical and the everyday ethereal, but where living happily ever after is often easier read than done."

Cora has everything a woman is supposed to want - a career, a caring husband, children, and a stylish home. 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. Wounding explores a woman's search for redemption, identity and truth.

A Modern Family is filled with wry observation, ruthless satire and, underneath it all, a real warmth. It is scathing, truthful and hilariously, painfully funny.' Jenn Ashworth. 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 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 all night. The prsenter views his family from the outside and watches as they slowly disintegrate in fron of him, unable to control anything that is not scripted.

THE GUARDIAN - "e;A beguiling mix of anomie and ornithology.This novel is brilliant.' DAVID PEACE. "e; A brilliant novel. One of the best debuts I have read in years."e; 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...