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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

  • 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 Orphan and the Mob (in Prospect magazine)
      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...
    • The Orphan and the Mob (BBC Radio 4 recording)
      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.)
    • The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble
      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.
    • In The Jar
      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...