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The Adventures of Jo Jo: Wonderful Children’s Stories now on Audio

  • Posted on March 14, 2018
  • by James Lawless

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…

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Acclaimed poems of Rus in Urbe now an audiobook

  • Posted on March 10, 2018
  • by James Lawless

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…

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Freezing to Death

  • Posted on March 2, 2018March 3, 2018
  • by James Lawless

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,…

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FAMILY FORTUNES

  • Posted on February 24, 2018
  • by James Lawless

This is my mother Catherine Lawless (née Geraghty) in the fifties with me as a child. She came from a Liberties family where there was always music: accordion, violin, piano and even a bass, which I remember my father transporting…

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WOW Award-Winning story now on Kindle and other devices

  • Posted on February 7, 2018
  • by James Lawless

Winner of the WOW Award for fiction. ‘Lovers Who Wound Blame it on the Storm shows how a talented writer can take the framework of an erotic love fixation and turn it into art by infusing it with a bone…

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THE KISS: Much praised Hennessey nominated story now on Kindle for 99 cents

  • Posted on January 30, 2018January 30, 2018
  • by James Lawless

Hennessey 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 elusive love. Tags: young love, France, 1968, Irish,…

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Much-Praised novel For Love of Anna at bargain price of 99 cents

  • Posted on January 22, 2018
  • by James Lawless

Available now in most book ebook formats at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/781360 at a bargain price of 99 cents, the much-praised novel For Love of Anna. Idealistic student Guido van Thool is torn between the extreme nature of his ideals and his love…

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Published now for Kindle and other devices intriguing inspirational story, Jolt

  • Posted on January 11, 2018January 12, 2018
  • by James Lawless

Published now for Kindle and other devices intriguing inspirational story, Jolt. Shortlisted for the Willesden Prize, Jolt is a story about perception and ingrained prejudices that we can carry around with us in our everyday lives. Sometimes it can take…

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Ebook sale up to 67% off

  • Posted on December 26, 2017
  • by James Lawless

What did you get for Christmas? At the end of the bed was there a piece of coal or maybe an ereader? If you have an ereader you may be interested in the great sale offer for eight days only…

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Christmas Eve

  • Posted on December 24, 2017
  • by James Lawless

Christmas Eve The birds make fake bird songs that I heard in the Christmas shops, the fake moon is spotted before dark, the navyblue sky is waiting for its absence to be filled, houses stand like sentries, men in windows…

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