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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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Forum (Talk Talk Talk...) > Religious cold turkey needed in South Africa

A chara Julian, remembering those smashing days at UCG, can I possibly request your help for an addict friend of mine (my country). Regrettably, long term overdosing on prim victorianism, calvinism (from our rugby playing friends) and ethnic mixes has resulted in 90% of the population the victim suffering from serious delusions and other varieties of escapism. I'm talking hardcore symptoms such as "it's gods will" and the "devil made him do it". Regrettably banging the VM around won't do much good this time as they are convinced she was a whore anyway. Your advice? Groete, Capetonian
April 7, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCapetonian
Hey there Capetonian (and I've a darned good idea who's lurking behind that pseuonym...) Lovely to hear from you. No idea how to solve your friend's problem though. I shall go away and think about it...

Mind you, have you ever considered they might be right? Maybe the devil DID make him do it.
April 7, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJulian Gough