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  • Jude: Level 1
    Jude: Level 1
    by Julian Gough

    Shortlisted for the 2008 Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.

    The novel's prologue won the biggest prize in the world for a single short story - the BBC National Short Story Prize.

    "Sheer comic brilliance" - The Times

    "The best comic novel I've ever read" - Tommy Tiernan

    "Could be the finest comic novel since Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman" - The Sunday Tribune

  • Juno and Juliet
    Juno and Juliet
    by Julian Gough

    My first novel, of which I am very fond. The adventures of teenage twin sisters Juno & Juliet, in their first year away from home. Life, love and literature, in Galway and Tipperary.

     

    "Like Roddy Doyle in an extremely good mood" - The Washington Post

    "A modern, at times brilliantly ironic reworking of the classical fairytale, with nods to Shakespeare, Austen and Beckett." - Literary Review

    "Hugely entertaining" - Vogue

  • Interviews with Julian Gough

    • Bold Type interview, by Kelley Kawano
      In which Julian Gough talks about Juno & Juliet, feminism, love, nationalism, Jane Austen, Norman Mailer, the crisis in the post-modern novel, pop music, heartbreak and Flann O'Brian
    • British Council New Writing interview
      As this interview was done as an educational resource for teachers (to accompany "The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble"), you have to click on a further link to download the interview as a Word document... Or see next link:
    • Repeat interview
      ... this is the British Council interview, "borrowed" by punk and Manic Street Preachers fanzine, REPEAT. Julian discusses "The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble", Somaliland, capitalism, religion, fiat currencies and goats.
    • Wikipedia entry on Toasted Heretic
      Not an interview, but an interesting (and surprisingly accurate) overview of Julian Gough's old band, Toasted Heretic.