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  • Jude in London
    Jude in London
    by Julian Gough

    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.

  • 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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  • Assorted New Stolen Images I Like

    Assorted New Stolen Images I Like (42)

     
  • NUIG Galway Alumni Awards (me getting one)

    NUIG Galway Alumni Awards (me getting one) (1)

    A couple of nice photos by Aengus McMahon of me getting an NUIG Alumni Award for Literature and the Arts.
     
  • Random shots of Julian and others

    Random shots of Julian and others (1)

    Random shots of Julian, and others
     
  • The Author in America

    The Author in America (7)

    Photographs of Julian Gough in America. Warning: Some of these photographs contain nipples. (Photos in this gallery copyright Phil Rose, at www.midline.net)
     
  • Portraits

    Portraits (9)

    Portraits, by Julian Gough.
     
  • Dromineer, December 2007 (reeds)

    Dromineer, December 2007 (reeds) (5)

    A bunch of almost identical photos, taken at Dromineer, Lough Derg, Tipperary, late December 2007. Perhaps the least interesting sequence of photos ever uploaded to the internet. They're of broken reeds, blown ashore and patterned by a storm. Only here to illustrate a poem, "Dromineer, December 2007", elsewhere on the site.
     
  • Tiny Landscapes

    Tiny Landscapes (3)

    Low-resolution landscapes, taken with camera phones. Camera phones often set to an even lower resolution than strictly necessary. (If "low resolution" were renamed "high simplicity", people would start to appreciate its virtues.)
     
  • The Author in Berlin

    The Author in Berlin (2)

    Photographs of Julian Gough in Berlin.
     
  • Tiny photos containing yellow

    Tiny photos containing yellow (7)

    Tiny photos by Julian Gough
     
  • Toasted Heretic grainy screengrabs

    Toasted Heretic grainy screengrabs (11)

    Some grainy screengrabs from old Toasted Heretic videos and TV appearances. (As a child, Julian Gough wrote the words, and sang them, on four Toasted Heretic albums.)
     
  • One jacket, three expressions

    One jacket, three expressions (3)

    Several photographs of Julian Gough just after having his breakfast. Nice blue jacket: made in Mongolia, bought in Galway, worn in Berlin. The photos were taken by the magnificent and mysterious Anne Marie Fives.
     
  • Random shots

    Random shots (1)

    Stuff that doesn't fit into any other gallery.
     
  • Kevin Harman's "Skip 2" in high resolution

    Kevin Harman's "Skip 2" in high resolution (6)

    Some high-resolution shots of "Skip 2", a temporary sculpture built in the middle skip (of three) on the corner of Auguststrasse and Tucholskystrasse (Berlin), by Kevin Harman, over the long weekend of 26th/27th/28th of May 2007.
     
  • Kevin Harman's "Skip 2" in low resolution

    Kevin Harman's "Skip 2" in low resolution (3)

    Some low-resolution camera-phone shots of "Skip 2", a temporary sculpture built in a skip on the corner of Auguststrasse and Tucholskystrasse (in Mitte, Berlin), by Kevin Harman, over the long weekend of 26th/27th/28th of May 2007.
     
  • Assorted Stolen Images I Like

    Assorted Stolen Images I Like (100)

    Assorted images I have stolen to use on my website. If they are your images, and you object, feel free to ask me to remove them, which I will of course do. I'm also happy to provide proper credits or links where I haven't done so (often I have no idea of the original source). Thank you...