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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Julian Corkle Is a Filthy Liar
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'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. Television is too much like hairdressing for his father's tastes. A Tasmanian man wants a son for sporting purposes. 'Boys don't like dolls,' he tells Julian, 'They like Dinky Toys.' Not this boy, thinks Julian, who knows better than to tell the truth.

'Besides, the family already has a sporting hero, Julian's sister Carmel aka 'The Locomotive'. Julian likes his sister, but knows better than to tangle with her bowling arm. It'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'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 'The Hog'. It's as if Crocodile Dundee has crashed Muriel's wedding and run off into the desert with Priscilla.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar Rachel Hirons , ( dir. M. J. Delaney ) Australia : Macgowan and Beneficiary Films , 2018 13198818 2018 single work film/TV

'Set in Tasmania in the 1980s, this is a comic coming-of-age story in which our slightly overweight and mendacious hero seeks fame and fortune, only to discover the truth far closer to home.'

Source: Screen Australia funding approvals.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Blue Door ,
      2010 .
      image of person or book cover 8774764104686069162.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 339p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 08 July 2010
      ISBN: 9780007332168 (pbk.), 0007332165 (pbk.)
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Blue Door ,
      2011 .
      image of person or book cover 5337942550934161288.jpg
      This image has been sourced from Goodreads.
      Extent: 339p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 1st 2011
      ISBN: 9780007332151
Alternative title: Julian Corkle Est Un Fieffé Menteur
Language: French
    • Paris,
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      France,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Belfond ,
      2011 .
      image of person or book cover 9111993963915970632.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 384p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 17 March 2011.
      ISBN: 9782714446503, 2714446507
    • Paris,
      c
      France,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      10-18 ,
      2012 .
      image of person or book cover 2014313478689088890.jpg
      This image has been sourced from Goodreads.
      Extent: 400p.
      Note/s:
      • Published June 7th 2012
      ISBN: 9782264055415

Works about this Work

A Corker, but Is a Star Born? Ron Cerabona , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 July 2010; (p. 23)

— Review of Julian Corkle Is a Filthy Liar D. J. Connell , 2010 single work novel
A Corker, but Is a Star Born? Ron Cerabona , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 July 2010; (p. 23)

— Review of Julian Corkle Is a Filthy Liar D. J. Connell , 2010 single work novel
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