The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy. Penguin. €15 This memoir springs from the break-up of Deborah Levy’s marriage and the death of her mother. Things fall apart, Levy says echoing Yeats. But she doesn’t want to hold it together. She…
Author: James Lawless
Irish novelist, poet and short story writer.
I have a limited number of promo codes from Audible https://adbl.co/2V3l7qs for free audio of my award-nominated story Jolt and critically-acclaimed novel Finding Penelope. If you contact me at jameslawless23@hotmail.com I will send them on a first come first served…
Willsesden prize short-listed story Jolt now on audio, narrated exquisitely by Heber Rowan A North of Ireland woman learns through her child’s tragedy how to face her prejudices while on a holiday in Turkey. Shortlisted for the Willesden Prize, Jolt…
During a long hot summer a young man, inspired by Bobby Darin’s Dream Lover, becomes infatuated with a beautiful girl only to make an emotionally-wrenching discovery. Extract: I remember it was a sweltering evening in early July and I was…
Memoir My Ear at His Heart: Reading my Father. Hanif Kureishi Faber, hardback. 2004 198 pp. E18.81. 0-571-22403-2. I first came across Hanif Kureishi in print form in his short story collection Midnight All Day (1999) with its seductive Faber…
My novel Finding Penelope has just been made into audio with ACX narrated beautifully by Sarah Brady. You may link to the opening sample (press ctrl + click to follow link) at https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Penelope/dp/B07NPYS2P6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr or https://www.amazon.co.uk/Finding-Penelope/dp/B07NQ157Y6/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=James+Lawless&qid=1551092756&s=gateway&sr=8-1 Apart from casting a wry…
Read a love story for Valentine. Is love stronger than ideology? How does Derek Foley’s love for the supreme ideologue Sinéad pan out in Peeling Oranges? What was the tragic ending in the love affair between Guido and the beautiful…
For Love of Anna For Love of Anna is a glowingly reviewed and brilliantly written thumping good read of love, tragedy and corruption in high places, ideal for snowy nights by a log fire. When university student Guido van Thool…
Jo Jo and the Deer One day near Christmas Jo Jo was on her way into the woods. The woods were at the back of her house. Her daddy was at work and her mammy was talking at the front…
I am delighted to announce that my ebook short story The Widow’s Consoler (available on Kindle and other epub devices)is now for sale as an audiobook. After the death of her invalid husband, a widow’s previously suppressed feelings for her…