Tearaway Press

10/04/2024

HERO OF ROSCLOGHER, book 3 in THE SASSANA STONE PENTALOGY & increasingly being called “The Irish Sh**un" is being released globally in April...

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02/04/2024

…pick up hero & you’re over halfway there… 🖤

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jamesvellabardon.com

01/04/2024

Launch day today for ! 🚀

29/03/2024

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Here’s my & others’ Manly Writers Festival interviews (mine’s the first up) with radio host Michael Lester on Radio Northern Beaches👇🏼

https://www.mixcloud.com/michael-lester5/four-writers-in-conversation-vella-bardon-riwoe-haskins-vincent-manly-writers-fest-vol361/

It can be live streamed by clicking the link at the top of this page👇🏼

https://www.rnb.org.au

The broadcast is airing today at 4pm 88.7 FM and 90.3 FM

Thanks Michael for interviewing me & I’m thrilled that you enjoyed



Note: first bash of Sassana was actually 450k not 150k words. I had a lapsus!

16/03/2024

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15/03/2024

& yet another advance review of has dropped today on Goodreads!

“Once more, I’m struck by Vella-Bardon’s visceral approach to storytelling. He takes the reader with him to experience the siege and skirmishes with all our senses. The smells, the sounds, the textures, the pain, the fear and the tedium of warfare are painted with stark clarity. The reader is mercilessly brought along on Santi’s journey, whether he’s freezing on the roof of the castle watching the English army, or sharing a tender moment with the ollave Murieann in her secret apiary. Through it all Santi is a reluctant hero, sometimes making the morally correct choices for the wrong reasons, and sometimes making the wrong choices and suffering the anguish of a guilty conscience”

Read the whole piece👇🏼

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6343175275

5/5: I jumped at the opportunity to read an ARC of the third instalment of The Sassana Stone series. Having read the already published books in the series, I could not wait to find out what fate has in store for our hero Abel ‘Santi’ Santiago, shipwrecked with the Spanish Armada in 16th century ...

14/03/2024

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shared so many great stories with a full house at the curtain-raiser tonight. Tickets to the various MWF talks are still available

13/03/2024

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Good news:
Tearaway Press is offering FREE digital advance review copies (ARCs) of ALL first three books (‘the Irish Sh**un’) until 1 April
PM me for copies now!
So what exactly is on offer here?
Well, here’s one of the first advance reviews being shared on Goodreads
Santi diehard Di lives in South Africa and first read us in ‘18 when was launched globally on The Pigeonhole online book club.
But she still wants more!

05/03/2024

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just received this review
it’s great when bookworms genuinely get what you’re doing
A reminder to all readers that advance review copies of the first three novels in are available FOR FREE in epub & pdf until 1 April: the publication date of
Just pm me if you’d like a copy

04/03/2024

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‘Hero of Rosclogher’ forms part of author James Vella-Bardon’s award-winning pentalogy

29/02/2024

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