Apologies for previous missive which did not have the correct links. I am delighted to announce that my story The House of the Fornicator about an uncherished daughter who flees to the city from a rakish and abusive father is…
Apologies fro previous missive which did not have correct links. I am delighted to announce that my story The House of the Fornicator about an uncherished daughter who flees to the city from a rakish and abusive father is now…
The critically acclaimed novel Peeling Oranges is now translated into German in a wonderfully accurate rendition by Udo Fischer. Read a sample or buy at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Das-Sch%C3%A4len-Orangen-James-Lawless/dp/1547522720/ref=sr_1_2_twi_pap_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1523978428&sr=8-2&keywords=james+lawless or https://www.amazon.com/Das-Sch%C3%A4len-von-Orangen-German/dp/1547522720/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1523978604&sr=1-9 or for Kindle https://www.amazon.co.uk/Das-Sch%C3%A4len-von-Orangen-German-ebook/dp/B07C5PMTFB/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1523978428&sr=8-2 for Kobo https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/das-schalen-von-orangen Peeling Oranges is also brilliantly…
EASTER A room darkened by rain and small windows photographs on a wall of the dead and the living a dead fly upturned on the windowsill mist obliterating the view of mountains leaves trembling in their new-born misery dogs hunger,…
From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland Fiction Review: From a Low and Quiet Sea, Donal Ryan, Doubleday Ireland, €14.99 James Lawless March 26 2018 2:30 AM Former civil servant Donal Ryan now lectures in creative writing in the University of…
I am delighted to announce that The Kiss, my Hennessy Award-nominated story of an impressionable young man’s hitchhiking journey through France in 1968 during the time of the Sorbonne riots where he encounters predatory sex and tastes the delights of…
There is a lot of talk at the moment about people retracing the medieval pilgrim route to Santiago. People undertake this journey now for different reasons, not all religious. It used to take nearly a year to complete from Ireland…
I am delighted to announce that my highly-praised collection of children’s short stories The Adventures of Jo Jo is now available as an audiobook. It is for sale at Audible, Amazon and iTunes. Free with Audible Trial. Listen to a…
I am delighted to announce that my collection of award-winning contemporary poems of country and city life, Rus in Urbe, is now available as an audiobook. It is for sale at Audible, Amazon and iTunes. Free with Audible Trial. Listen…
Con was not at home when his brother Thady called, so Thady went on a pub crawl, starting with Saints and Sinners in Woodside and on to the old haunts: Quinlans in Rochester and Rosie O’Gradys on Seventh Avenue. God,…