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.
Julian Gough and Alan Bennett burn with righteous fury after being robbed of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Photo by Phil Rose...
Pleased to meet you. Do make yourself at home... Julian Gough's brilliant comic novel Jude: Level 1
If you cannot wait another minute to own Jude: Level 1
There's a brief guide to the site below. Feel free to wander around, post comments, ask questions, or mail Julian...
Welcome, stranger. Julian Gough writes funny and increasingly indescribable novels. He was born in London, raised in Tipperary, educated in Galway, and lives in Berlin.
In April 2007, Julian Gough won the biggest prize in the world for a single short story, the UK's National Short Story Prize, for "The Orphan and the Mob". You can read fifteen thousand pounds worth of story, for free, here. It is funny, action-packed, and in very bad taste. The story is also the prologue to his extraordinary and genre-mangling new novel, Jude: Level 1...
Before that, Julian Gough was best known for writing the novel Juno & Juliet.
He also, in his youth, wrote the words (and sang) on four albums by the cult Galway group, Toasted Heretic.
This site contains Julian Gough's biography, poetry, song lyrics, and his occasional blog. For the brave, there are photographs by (and of) Julian Gough. There are also links to free pieces of the new novel, and to some of the more interesting interviews. (And if you don't like any of that, there is always his debauched Myspace site.)
Enjoy...