James Hanley

James Hanley was born in Dublin on 3 September 1901.His novel Boy was the subject of an obscenity charge in Manchester in early 1936 - to which his publishers pleaded guilty and were heavily fined. The book was withdrawn and all remaining copies destroyed.
His novels and stories are Drift - Novel (Eric Partridge, The Scholartis Press, London 1930); The German Prisoner - Novella (Privately printed, London 1930); A Passion Before Death - Novella (Privately printed, London 1930); The Last Voyage - Novella (Joiner and Steele, London 1931); Men in Darkness - Five Stories (The Bodley Head, London 1931); Boy - Novel (Boriswood, London 1931); Stoker Haslett - Novella (Joiner and Steele, London 1932); Aria and Finale - Three Novellas (Boriswood, London 1932); Ebb and Flood - Novel (The Bodley Head, London 1932); Captain Bottell - Novel (Boriswood, London 1933); Resurrexit Dominus - Novel (Privately Printed, London 1934); Quartermaster Clausen - Novella (The White Owl Prerss, London 1934); The Furys - Novel (Chatto and Windus, London 1935); At Bay - Novella (Grayson & Grayson, London 1935); Stoker Bush - Novel (Chatto and Windus, London 1935); The Secret Journey - Novel (Chatto and Windus, London 1936); Broken Water - Autobiography (Chatto and Windus, London 1937); Grey Children - Documentary (Methuen, London 1937); Half an Eye - Short Stories (The Bodley Head, London 1937); Hollow Sea - Novel (The Bodley Head, London 1938); People Are Curious - Stories (The Bodley Head, London 1938); Between the Tides - Essays (Methuen, London 1939); Our Time is Gone - Novel (The Bodley Head, London 1940); The Ocean - Novel (Faber and Faber, London 1941); No Directions - Novel (Faber and Faber, London 1943); Sailor's Song - Novel (Nicholson & Watson, London 1943); At Bay and Other Stories (Faber and Faber, London 1944); Crilley and Other Stories (Nicholson & Watson, London 1945); What Farrar Saw - Novel (Nicholson & Watson, London 1946); Selected Stories (Maurice Fridberg, Dublin 1947); Emily - Novel (Nicholson & Watson, London 1948); Winter Song - Novel (Phoenix House, London 1950); Walk in the Wilderness - Stories (Phoenix House, London 1950); A House in the Valley - Novel [as Patric Shone] (Jonathan Cape, London 1951); The Closed Harbour - Novel (Macdonald, London 1952); Don Quixote Drowned - Essays (Macdonald, London 1953); Collected Stories (Macdonald, London 1953); The Welsh Sonata - Novel (Derek Verschoyle, London 1954); Levine - Novel (Macdonald, London 1956); An End and a Beginning - Novel (Macdonald, London 1958); Say Nothing - Novel (Macdonald, London 1962); Another World - Novel (Andre Deutsch, London 1972) A Woman in the Sky - Novel (Andre Deutsch, London 1973); Dream Journey - Novel (Andre Deutsch, London 1976); and A Kingdom - Novel (Andre Deutsch, London 1978).
His plays include The Inner Journey - Three Act Play (Black Raven Press, London 1965); and Plays One - Two Plays (Kaye & Ward, London 1968).
He died in London in November 1985.

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In-print books by James Hanley may be purchased directly from
his UK publisher Harvill Press