Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar

By D. J. Connell

The funniest debut novel since Tom Sharpe’s Riotous Assembly, only it’s set in Tasmania!Julian Corkle&#39;s got small-screenability. His mother tells him he&#39;ll be a star one day. &#39;Twinkle, twinkle,&#39; she says, giving his hair a ruffle.Not everyone shares Julian&#39;s dreams of stardom. Television is too much like hairdressing for his father&#39;s tastes. A Tasmanian man wants a son for sporting purposes. &#39;Boys don&#39;t like dolls,&#39; he tells Julian, &#39;They like Dinky Toys.&#39; Not this boy, thinks Julian, who knows better than to tell the truth.Besides, the family already has a sporting hero, Julian&#39;s sister Carmel aka &#39;The Locomotive&#39;. Julian likes his sister, but knows better than to tangle with her bowling arm. It&#39;s the same one she uses for punching.Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar is the ultimate feel-good novel, a book that will have the reader laughing out loud on the back of a bus as it follows Julian&#39;s bumpy journey through adolescence, fibbing his way through school and a series of dead-end jobs, to find his ultimate calling as creator of &#39;The Hog&#39;. It&#39;s as if Crocodile Dundee has crashed Muriel&#39;s wedding and run off into the desert with Priscilla.

The funniest debut novel since Tom Sharpe’s Riotous Assembly, only it’s set in Tasmania!Julian Corkle's got small-screenability. His mother tells him he'll be a star one day. 'Twinkle, twinkle,' she says, giving his hair a ruffle.Not everyone shares Julian's dreams of stardom.

By D. J. Connell

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