Bluemoose Books Ltd

A football book written by fans for fans that travels the five continents and looks at how over 80 clubs have transformed their communities. It tells you how to get there, where to stay and where best to eat on a budget that would embarrass the prawn sandwich brigade. Did you know two of drug lord Pablo Escobar's passions were hippos and football and he bankrolled his own club Atlético Nacional? Unlike Pablo, the hippos are still roaming free. What's the best way to travel to St. Pauli in Germany? And where do you get the cheapest pint and a pie? And which ULTRA fans combined to bring down a governmen? Football Odyssey - Passion, Politics and The Beautiful Game is a brilliant resource guide to the history, politics and passion that fans of over 80 clubs around the world still have for the beautiful game.

Caroline Summers helps people to die. She is a Blackshroud — a member of the select society of women who have dispensed the fatal draught since time immemorial. But in Victorian England, times are changing fast. Caroline finds herself at the centre of a scandal that threatens to bring down not just herself but her whole profession alongside her. Can she find a way to survive? And can she do so without sacrificing everything she stands for?

Beast explores how dreams and desires can both liberate or confine the dreamer. Eve, a young self-taught musician sits on a bench overlooking the grassy crossroads of a model village. She is dreaming of the power of music. Her dreams reach into the cosmos, summoning Demon and his rabbit familiar.Eve longs to harness the divine in service of her music. But will she instead make a deal with Demon for worldly success? Demon dreads the terrible price he will pay for failure and thus begins a long battle for Eve’s soul.

The siesta hour, France. Bees fly in lavender bushes. Anna has just come home, but something is wrong. She fears nothing will ever be right again.Anna is haunted by the death of her only child, Lou. After her son’s death, Anna has a breakdown and is hospitalized. In the psychiatric ward, Anna becomes determined to undo death by writing everything down in a set of orange notebooks: fragments and tales about bees, death rituals, her London childhood, the story of her relationship with Lou’s Basque father, Antton, their meeting on a ferry on the day Princess Diana died, Anna’s consequent obsession with the English Channel, a cursed trench coat, the duplicity of beige, Lou’s Jewish and Basque heritage, and the role of bees because their wax made the candles that light the path of the dead. In the hospital Anna meets Yann, a Breton Sea captain. Together, they go on an Orphic journey to the underworld, sailing from Finistere in his boat to the middle of the English Channel, to try and find Lou at the exact point where his destiny began. Myth and reality collide, allowing Anna to begin the healing process.

What happens when you suddenly find yourself an unwanted foreigner?Tess and Arlo have made a happy life on St Mira. But the island is not immune to the forces reshaping the world. When a far-right government surges to power, foreigners are their first target. It''s time for Tess and Arlo to leave. But what if it''s too late?The Accidental Immigrants is political fiction based on the facts of the years since Brexit: the fallout from the referendum, the rise of the far right, and the increasing xenophobia towards people on the move. Set on an island that''s a mirror image of Britain, it''s both allegory and warning, and a poignant, prescient tale for our times about the dangers facing us all."In reading this incisive critque of anti-immigration politics we stare straight back at ourselves...This humane, sensitive novel is insidiously shocking; and it looks set to become even more politically relevant given recent electoral results in the UK, Europe and the US." - Orwell Prize for Political Fiction panel