Published Books List:
ANIMOSITIES (Published October 2019)
“″In 1951 a man’s innocent son is brutally beaten to death in London by four policemen. There is a cover-up. Twenty-eight years later in 1979 the father, who was presumed to have committed suicide out of grief, re-emerges from obscurity under a new name and multi-layered persona to exact vengeance on the killers.
The story, mostly set in London, is conceived as a study in wrong-doing and retribution against a backdrop of the political imperatives of the British and, to a lesser extent German, law and order scene of the 1970s. Within that context, thriller-like and technologically advanced ‘devices’ are employed in the telling of the story.”
ISBN 978 0 9558221 4 8
Animosities is now available on Kindle Amazon link here to Animosities by James Ballantyne!
I RETRU GRADE series:
Story One – The Bald Bowelero (Published June 2008)
I am drawn into a hunt for a cache of diamonds.
To buy on http://www.amazon.com/The-Bald-Bowelero-Retru-Grade-ebook
Story Two – Punschi Coins a Spin (Published June 2008)
A second case for I Retru Grade. He gets entangled in the illegal trade in antiquities and a food repackaging scam.
To buy on http://www.amazon.com/Punschi-Coins-Spin-Retru-Grade-ebook
Story Three – Rogue Moyle
A twin tale of unholy adult male circumcision and a wife’s pursuit of an absconding husband unravels before my eyes.
To Buy on http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rogue-Moyle-Retru-Grade-trilogy-ebook
Lismore – Autobiography of an Irish Town 1937-1954 (Published June 2008)
isbn 978 0 9558221 0 0 – To order only
This culmination of twenty years’ work is an evocation of life in the town of Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland during the writer’s childhood and formative years, using his family as a study example. Anyone interested in the social history of Ireland will find it of value because many of the features of rural life in the County Waterford were common to the whole of Éire/Ireland during the period. It will hold special interest for the people of Lismore and West Waterford and also Carrick-on-Suir to which town, having Morrissey ties, the Ballantyne family went on holiday every summer.
‘The Dracula Set’ – This was James Ballantyne first poetry collection (Published March 1993)
On sale here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dracula-Set-James-Ballantyne/dp/1898070016
The Book designs for ‘Lismore’ and the ‘I RETRU GRADE’ series are by Nicky Barneby of Barneby Ltd.
Email her here: info@barneby.co.uk
