James Lawless has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Finding Penelope.
Brown Brick
Summary
Why does the mysterious Mr. Washington slowly demolish a house? "A surreal blend of black humour, metaphor and gritty but exquisitely executed urban squalor, which for all its ingenuity never loses the soul of its story." (The Sunday Business Post.)
©2019 James Lawless (P)2020 James Lawless
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Las Aventuras de Jo Jo [The Adventures of Jo Jo]
Summary
Jo Jo es una adorable, pero a veces traviesa pequeña niña de ocho años, que puede hablar con los animales y adora el bosque, en donde ocurren muchas de sus aventuras. Descubre por qué la nariz de Rodolfo el Reno es roja, en qué se convierte un cangrejo cuando llega a la costa, qué le ocurre a Jo Jo cuando se pierde en la ciudad o cuando es transportada a un reino mágico. En algunas ocasiones, Jo Jo también puede tener un lado tenebroso, como en el espeluznante cuento de “El picaporte que se movía”. En esta obra, encontramos historias que atraerán no sólo a niños de todas las edades, sino que también a adultos que aún conservan su imaginación y juventud de espíritu. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2020 James Lawless (P)2020 James Lawless
The Corpseman of the Liberties
Summary
A young boy in the old Liberties of Dublin learns about growing up through his handicapped cousin and a strange bookseller.
©2019 James Lawless (P)2020 James Lawless
Finding Penelope
Summary
Thirty-three-year-old romance novelist Penelope Eames moves to Spain to avoid her oppressive father and drug-addicted brother, Dermot. When she meets Ramon, 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. Ramon, 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 jeopardize her chance of happiness with Ramon for the sake of her drug-addicted brother? Author's note: Apart from casting a wry glance at the phenomenon of chick-lit and treating of the role of patriarchy in a family, the novel Finding Penelope is essentially a love story marking a growth in self-realization in the protagonist Penelope Eames. It delves into the drug culture and its associated criminality in Spain (where a lot of Celtic Tiger money wound up laundered), Ireland, and the UK. The prompt for the novel was from Cervantes, and a motif may be interpreted as a sort of modern-day parallel of Don Quijote's attack on the proliferation of romance novels of that time. As 70 percent of fans are now female, I wanted to understand more of the female mindset. So I picked the brains of women of my acquaintance, including two adult daughters, and I researched contemporary women writers and books like Everywoman, and I reread with new female (or at least androgynous eyes) my well-thumbed de Beauvoir, Anna Karenina, and Portrait of a Lady. Simultaneously, I was studying the crime culture on the Costa. The result was the character Penelope Eames.
©2014 James Lawless (P)2019 James Lawless