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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

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Tuesday
18Nov2008

Finance Ministers' Top 20

DateTuesday, November 18, 2008 at 09:37PM

I've been enjoying the annual Financial Times’ guide to how Europe’s finance ministers are doing. After a great deal of number-crunching, chin-stroking, horse-trading and coin-tossing, they have come up with the unbearably exciting, grey-pinstriped, financial equivalent of a Top of the Pops / Smash Hits / Billboard Top 20. (Well, OK, top 19.) And here they are! (If you're not trembling too much with excitement to click on the link.)

 

As the FT says:

"Now in its third year, the FT survey benchmarks performance, to reveal who is the best performing and most respected – as well as potential future stars. The challenges this year were greater than ever...."

 

No kidding.

 

I was delighted to see that Ireland's Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, didn't come last. Far from it! He came in a very respectable second last.

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