‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory

Bluemoose publishes no more than 10 books a year but Kevin Duffy knows how to pick a winner

The two-up, two-down terrace on a cobbled Hebden Bridge street does not look like the headquarters of a multi award-winning publishing house. There is no gleaming edifice, no sign and certainly no reception desk. The green front door leads straight into Kevin Duffy's living room, the nerve centre of Bluemoose books, his independent literary hit factory.

It is at a cluttered table in the corner that Duffy has built a business with a success rate that billion-pound publishers regard with envy.