Judas Boys

The long-awaited new novel from award-winning Australian writer, Joel Deane.

What happens when the future falls as dark as your past?

When all that you have seduced and betrayed, rises up to drown you.

Pat Pinnock is about to find out.

Pinnock is a Judas Boy - a private schoolboy gone to seed. He's lost his job as a political staffer. He sleeps in the garage of his estranged wife. He has finally run out of friends and must face his accusers - both the living and the dead.

Judas Boys is the eagerly-awaited new novel from Joel Deane: a searing de profundis that reads like the secret history behind today's political headlines. Deane brings the aftermath of professional catastrophe, personal betrayal, and public disgrace to life with a poet's ear for the human voice fractured in extremis.

'Deane belongs to a long line of yarn-spinners ... from Henry Lawson to Frank Hardy to Peter Carey.' - Sydney Morning Herald

Accolades for John Deane:

Winner of the Vincent Buckley Prize

Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards

Finalist for the Walkley Book Award

Finalist for the Queensland Literary Awards

Finalist for the Melbourne Prize for Literature

Shortlisted for the John Bray Award

Domestic noir at its best … This beautiful novel is worth re-reading and re-reading. It's that good.‘ — Peter Donoughue

Joel Deane is a poet, novelist, journalist and speechwriter. He is the author of Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power; two novels, The Norseman's Song and Another; three collections of poetry, Year of the Wasp, Magisterium, and Subterranean Radio Songs. A former speech-writer to Victorian Premiers Steve Bracks and John Brumby, he writes about politics with a unique insider's eye.

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