Welcome to DAVEJAMESBOOKS.. I am a POD (publish-on-demand) author, teacher, writer and book reviewer. I have now moved from academe to the creative writing business. Years ago I published articles in Essays in Criticism, the Times Literary Supplement and the like; more recently I have moved into the entertainment business- novels,stories and more popular writing. If you wish to contact me my e-mail address is davejames_writer@hotmail.com
In 2002 I published Paris Bound, a road novel, the story of a culture-clashed romance between two disparate lovers on their journey from Morocco to Paris
My latest (August 2007) is Punching Judy, the story of a girl boxer, a juvenile deliinquent who lands some pretty hefty punches to anyone who gets in her way in 1950's London.
Book cover illustration by Ligaya James, the author's daughter and Graphics Design editor of her school's magazine in 2007.
The cover design above is based on a nineteenth-century engraving showing the USA flag. The flag portrayed was designed in 1896 with 45 stars when Utah became the forty-fifth state.
This edition was published in 1977 in the Longman Imprint series, designed for use in schools and colleges with my editorial appendices, and accompanied by a series of photographs introducing The American Scene to British students.
