I have a number of promo codes from Audible https://adbl.co/2LUAfAH & https://adbl.co/32sGth9 which will entitle you to a free audio copy of my critically-acclaimed novel Finding Penelope, narrated beautifully by Sarah Brady. If you contact me at jameslawless23@hotmail.com with your…
I am delighted to announce that my well-received novel Peeling Oranges, a love story which intersects the histories of two countries, Ireland and Spain, has now been published as an audio book. Buy or listen to a free sample beautifully…
Shadowplay Joseph O’Connor Harvill Secker €15.50 The three main characters in this engrossing book were real people. Henry Irving, world-renowned Shakespearean actor and owner of the Lyceum Theatre in London. Bram Stoker, Dubliner and later author of Dracula, then unknown.…
The Horseman’s Song Ben Pastor Bitter Lemon Press €11 The title is taken from Federica García Lorca’s poem Canción de Jinete and the poet’s work permeates the novel as a motif and it is his unsolved murder which sparks off…
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…
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…