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

Kevin Duffy has built a business in his home that is the envy of deep-pocketed publishers. Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian

The two-up, two-down terraced house 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.