Bluemoose Books imprint: 13 books

Michael Stewart is an award winning writer and playwright. In 2011 his debut novel, KING CROW, won The Guardian's NOT THE BOOKER and in 2012 KING CROW was a WORLD BOOK NIGHT recommended read.

THE GUARDIAN - "A beguiling mix of anomie and ornithology.This novel is brilliant.' DAVID PEACE. " A brilliant novel. One of the best debuts I have read in years." Paul Cooper is an outsider. When he looks at people he wonders what bird they are. He finds making friends...

A young woman flees the confines of her traditional family in Jerusalem. She breaks all the rules and moves towards her own future.

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.

How did a girl who once dreamed of being a Charlie's Angel become such a cowed and submissive woman? When a chance meeting at her once a week trip to the swimming baths develops into a secret relationship she has the chance to become the women she wanted to be but is it too late?

Sir Chris Bonnington. " Success on all the seven summits is a feat in itself, made all the more remarkable by the fact thay wre all summited at their first attempt. However, Alistair's hardest climb is his recovery from a near fatal brain haemmorhage. All of the survival skills that a climber...

IRVINE WELSH. 'BLACK NEON is a pitch black slice of neo-noir, where black magic, art house cinema, drug fuelled madness and apocolyptic violence collide with dizzying effect. I fell in love with every page.'

When award-winning journalist Marcus Murray's latest story uncovers a corrupt alliance between a UK bank, the arms trade and the government, it seems he has triumphed again in his quest for the truth. But he is accused of fabrication and nothing in his life makes sense any more, including the disappearance...

'Secrets and stones have settled in Hawden where everything stays as it is; the past is hidden, or rewritten. Lauren lives with her dad and Mr Lion after her mother left her when she was three months old. Her boyfriend Peter is struggling with his identity. When Meg and her son Richard arrive, both...

Eva takes her son Torin away from petty crime and gang violence in London to the safest place she knows: her father's caravan in Ireland. Eva hopes to stay and find the daughter she left behind but Torin, rootless, can't settle there.

When Malika loses her longed for daughter at birth, it is not the only loss in the family: the surviving twin - a boy - loses the love of his mother. He grows up needing to be the daughter his mother wants. This is a moving family portrait, richly coloured by the vibrant culture and landscape of India,...

(Shortlisted for the Not-the-Booker Prize 2016) 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."

CHICKENS' LIB is about passion, conviction and how two women, Clare Druce and her mother, Violet Spalding, were driven to highlight the intolerable and cruel conditions on Britain's factory farms. They staged demonstrations inside the Ministry of Agriculture, caged humans in Parliament Square, were...