"On the cover, the comedian Tommy Tiernan declares it 'the best comic novel I have ever read'. This rather put me off, but when I found myself laughing out loud yet again, and still only on page 6, it seemed almost an understatement ... and it only gets better. Don't miss it."

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THE TIMES

“Intelligent and deliciously dry, Gough’s sparkling words can’t fail to make you sit up, listen and laugh.”

GLAMOUR

“Like Roddy Doyle in an extremely good mood”

WASHINGTON POST

“Julian Gough is so good a writer, he should probably dispense with plot. What he has is an outstanding talent for comic scenes and for an evocation of balmy good nature.”

THE OBSERVER

“Perfect, perfect comedy. A cross between Flann O'Brien, Father Ted and Morrisey. The best comic novel I've ever read”

TOMMY TIERNAN

“Jude: Level 1, the hilarious new novel by Julian Gough, is a tour de farce, a comic chronicle of the history of the Irish psyche which takes the reader from the middle of the 20th century to the post-Celtic Tiger ennui of today, at breakneck speed.”

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