Bluemoose launches non-fiction list

Bluemoose Books is launching a non-fiction list, starting with a book by Stu Hennigan which exposes "the abject poverty of an inner city trying to cope with the onset of the pandemic".

Ghost Stories will publish in summer 2022 and will be followed by three more non-fiction titles in 2023. The publisher acquired world rights direct from the author.

Bluemoose said Hennigan's book will be launched in a series of library roadshows across the UK and it will be sending signed copies to each member of the Cabinet and to the Prime Minister. 

Press founder Kevin Duffy told The Bookseller: "The book came about when Stu, furloughed at the beginning of the pandemic, volunteered to take emergency medicines to the vulnerable and housebound in and around Leeds. It soon became apparent that many people were also in need of emergency food supplies. The book started off as a diary in the first two months of the pandemic and became a siren call to our leaders that there were thousands of people who were suffering and unable to afford even the basics of food and heating.

"It will become, I hope, a 21st-century Road to Wigan Pier, although on the other side of the Pennines and is a book that every member of Parliament should read".