My new novel. It starts with the award-winning, BBC broadcast prologue, "The Orphan and the Mob", and continues with Jude's quest for True Love in Tipperary, Galway, the Aran Islands, and Dublin... Love, death, arson, philosophy, and sex. Starring Jude, an orphan who looks the spit of Leonardo DiCaprio. Except for having two penises. Which makes True Love... complicated.
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Free Pieces of Jude
Some of the next novel has already been published. Here are a couple of (not always legal) links. (Don't worry, you can tell the judge I gave you full permission)...-
The short story that won the National Short Story Prize 2007. In which we first meet Jude, a Tipperary orphan, whose 18th birthday is about to go badly wrong...
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A brilliant reading of the National Short Story Prize winner, read by Conor Lovett. Should be available on here on the BBC Radio 4 website for a while. Click on "Tuesday" to listen... (It's 30 minutes long.)
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In which Jude is told a story... of Economics... in Africa... This was first published in the Financial Times. Various websites campaigning for an independent Somaliland have since pirated it (praise indeed)... this link is to one.
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In which Jude embarks on a long, strange trip... First published in Prospect magazine in November 2006. They kindly allow an illustrated pdf of the story to be downloaded free from the Short Story campaign website, here...
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