Julian Gough

The UK Kindle Single #1 hit.

Jude lives in a henhouse with no roof, that he bought for ten million euro, at the height of the Irish property bubble. One day, his mortgage is rated the debt in Europe most likely to default... The political and financial elite of Europe arrive, with a plan: help Jude put a roof on his henhouse, stabilize his debt, and reassure the markets. It all goes horribly wrong.

"This novella is very funny – laugh-out-loud at times…Gough is one of our most talented satirists" — The Irish Independent

Shortlisted for both the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize, and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, Jude in London is an epic, comic exploration of the bizarre love triangle between language, consciousness, and reality. Which is all very well, if you're into that sort of thing.

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

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