André Joseph Launay is a novelist, essayist, humourist and dramatist of French descent who writes in English under the pen name

Pen name

A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...

s André Launay, Drew Launay, Andrew Laurance and Drew Lamark.

He is the author of family dramas, psychic thrillers, humour and travel books published in the United Kingdom and in the US. Launay lives in Nerja

Nerja

Nerja is a municipality on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga, Andalusia, southern Spain. It is on the country's southern Mediterranean coast, about 50 km east of Málaga.-History:...

, in the south of Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

; He has three children: record producer Nick Launay

Nick Launay

Nick Launay is an English record producer and recording engineer. He is currently one of the most sought after producers in the world due to his current success with recent albums by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds...

, film director Matthew Launay, artist and illustrator Melissa Launay.

Vist the Drew Launay website at http://www.drewlaunay.com where his best sellers are being published in most eBook formats.

Fiction

• The New Shining White Murder
• A Corpse in Camera
• Death and Still Life
• The Scream
• The Premonition
• The Link
• The Unborn
• Catacomb
• Ouija
• The Black Hotel
• The Girl with a Peppermint Taste
• The Innocence Has Gone , Daddy
• The Snake Orchards
• The Medusa Horror
• The Latchkey Children (Hard & Paperback)
• The Harlequin’s Son (Hard & Paperback)
• Seance
• She Modelled Her Coffin (Linford Mystery Library)
• The Two-Way Mirror
• The Olive Groves of Alhora(With Maria Isabel Rodriguez.)
• The Maestro of Alhora (With Maria Isabel Rodriguez)

Non-fiction

• Caviare and After
• Dictionary of Contemporaries
• Historic Air Disasters
• Eat, Drink and Be Sorry
• Morocco
• Madrid & Southern Spain
• The Other You
• Bluffers Guide to Antiques (Paperback)
• The Xenophobe's Guide to the Spanish (Paperback)
• French for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners (Paperback)
• Spanish for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners (Paperback)
• German for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners (Paperback)
• Italian for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners (Paperback)

Stage plays

• The Man on a Balcony
• The Aimless
• Come Into My Bed'
• Yes, We Have no Pyjamas
• A Farce in his Ear, (with Anthony Marriott)

Screenplays

• The Girl With a Peppermint Taste (for Carter De Haven)
• Hideous Whispers (for Hammer
  Hammer Film Productions
  Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies and in later...
  
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• Black Hotel (for Hammer)
• The Latchkey Children (for Joe Manuel Productions)
• The Harlequin's Son (for Rocket Pictures)

Documentary Film

• The Chef of the Dorchester (Look at Life.)

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