James Lawless

After the rain

Letters to Jude could be on the Leaving Cert Great review of my new novel Letters to Jude in Liffey Champion this week where the reviewer champions the novel as a contender for a Leaving Cert text. You may buy Letters to Jude at https://amzn.to/3bTj5CJ or https://amzn.to/3OPhv3d in paperback or ebook and if you feel like giving it a star...

My well-received novel Finding Penelope has just been made into audio with ACX narrated beautifully by Sarah Brady. You may link to the opening at https://amzn.to/2FqC97d
Thirty three year old romance novelist Penelope Eames moves to Spain to avoid her oppressive father and drug-addicted brother, Dermot. When she meets Ramón, a young Spanish school teacher, she is immediately attracted to him and feels the happiness that eluded her all her life may at last be hers. However, she receives a distress call from Dermot saying he is at the mercy of Charlie Eliot, a pimp and drug dealer on the Costa. Ramón, whose mother was killed by a drug addict, tells her to have nothing to do with Charlie Eliot. Penelope must decide: is she prepared to compromise herself with Charlie Eliot and jeopardise her chance of happiness with Ramón for the sake of her drug addicted brother?
‘Lawless reinvented the millennia-worn story line to reveal not only a Dublin expat Costa del Sol akin to the RTÉ Love Hate series but beautiful writing.’ Books Ireland
‘Penelope’s is an authentic voice, full of human contradiction and composed desperation.’ Sunday Independent
‘This is a really, really fine piece of sharp, precise and accurate work. A novel that will give deep, literary pleasure.’ Carlo Gébler, author.
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Everything To Play For: 99 Poems about sport https://t.co/EhyFxOSIa9

Everything To Play For: 99 Poems about sport Everything To Play For 99 Poems about sport (ed. John McAuliffe) Poetry Ireland €17.50 hardback After the publication of the momentous Sport and Ireland: A History by Paul Rousse, Maureen Kennelly of Poetry Ireland is reported to have approached John McAuliffe, co-director of Manchester...

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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 195, Kenzaburo Oe The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

Jenny Diski died. Jenny Diski interview: 'The mediocrity of fiction is really to do with feeling cosy’ https://t.co/7mCLev4OKb

Jenny Diski interview: 'The mediocrity of fiction is really to do with feeling cosy’ The author, who has passed away aged 68, shares in this interview how she busts the cliches of writing a cancer diary

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A Story About Love and Vengeance - Book Review on James Lawless's For Love of Anna “We are all accidents, stray atoms wandering around” - Guido, For the Love of Anna In James Lawless’s latest work, For Love of Anna, the main character Guido is an aimless young man whose purpose in life and political ambitions come to life aft...

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AT WHAT AGE DOES ONE CREATE ONE’S BEST WORK? AT WHAT AGE DOES ONE CREATE ONE’S BEST WORK? Michelangelo, Goethe, Rembrandt, Victor Hugo, James Lawless, Titian, Immanuel Kant, Rabelais, Benjamin Franklin, Carlo Gebler, Cervantes (can you spot any odd ones out?) all did their best work after middle age. I think you need the experience of...

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AT WHAT AGE DOES ONE CREATE ONE’S BEST WORK? AT WHAT AGE DOES ONE CREATE ONE’S BEST WORK? Michelangelo, Goethe, Rembrandt, Victor Hugo, James Lawless, Titian, Immanuel Kant, Rabelais, Benjamin Franklin, Carlo Gebler, Cervantes (can you spot any odd ones out?) all did their best work after middle age. I think you need the experience of...

The Wing Orderly& #8217;s Tales, Carlo Gébler https://t.co/pb49Po4vqT

The Wing Orderly’s Tales, Carlo Gébler The Wing Orderly’s Tales Carlo Gébler New Island €9.95 Carlo Gébler is a highly talented and underrated writer. At over 60 now he believes publishers are no longer interested in supporting writers who try to produce books when they are over 50/60 years. ‘For someone like me who doesn’t...

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Ireland 1518: Archduke Ferdinand’s Visit to Kinsale and the Dürer connection, by Hiram Morgan Contemporary account of the teenage Archduke Ferdinand’s unplanned sojourn in the 16th-century port town makes for fascinating reading

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Supreme Court Rejects Google Books Appeal The decision ends one of the publishing industry's defining legal dramas of the digital age.

Book review: The Prophets of Eternal Fjord https://t.co/yFTmCmn0ro

Book review: The Prophets of Eternal Fjord This is a great, original novel with a rich polyphony of memorable places and events and resonating characters.

Exciting new novel American Doll: ‘A sweeping story of how 9/11 opened a Pandora’s Box on an Irish/American family.’

American Doll: ‘A sweeping story of how of 9/11 opened a Pandora’s Box on an Irish/American family.’

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Book review: A Song of Shadows https://t.co/pBLTbjuqwf

Book review: A Song of Shadows THE title of this novel appears generic and forgettable and almost indistinguishable from hundreds of others in the same field.

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We Are Here Issue Four Ready to Order Now From the resurrection of Dublin 8, to the dark corners of Irishtown; from a personal view of The Event Guide to a portrait of the Dublin stores keeping vinyl alive. We also look at the bizarre coverage of the recent gangland conflicts and we receive a love letter to Capel Street. We examine the lega…

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There is no spoon; Or, The Assumption that Literature Contains A Truth I’ve been thinking about Stephen Akey’s article, “The Complete Works” (The Smart Set, 24 March 2016) since I read it last week. Akey responds to T.S. Eliot and other literar…

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The Analyst as Eeyore Fintan O’Toole’s narrow focus allows him to portray Irish public life as suffering a grave malaise, a condition one could almost say was unique to our society. His closely cropped view allows him to denounce our public services as “squalid”. But squalid compared to what…