Devil in Disguise

The second darkly comic novel from one of Britain's best loved comedians and entertainers

It's as camp as the proverbial row of tents, but Clary tells a very good story. Funny and absolutely charming.

The comedian's debut novel sold by the bucketload, and this new one is even better - a darkly funny and deeply rude triumph

Julian Clary combines crime and comedy in his outrageous new novel...brilliantly funny and touching

Consistently triumphant...a brilliant romp

The Devil In Disguise is a sheer delight from start to finish. 
 
I blame Clary for the bags under my eyes and my mumbling late-night mantra of "just one more chapter"....it's Showgirls meets Queer As Folk meets Baby Jane. Wonderful.

Absurd, funny and classic Clary... Clary is witty, derisive, awful, solemn, tender, camp and definitely memorable; Devil in Disguise is, in turn, all of these things, which is quite an achievement.

Julian Clary is one of Britain's most loved entertainers. His memoir A Young Man's Passage was a Sunday Times bestseller, as was the hardback of his first novel, Murder Most Fab. He lives in Camden and Kent.

How far would you go for fame and fortune? 
 
Would you change your name? 
 
Change your personality? 
 
Reveal your inner drag queen? 
 
Betray your friends? 
 
Would you kill? 
 
Fab, filthy and funny, Julian Clary's Devil in Disguise is a tale of friendship, celebrity and the lengths people will go to for both...

Murder Most Fab

A darkly hilarious debut novel from one of Britain's best-loved entertainers

A very funny novel ... I couldn't put it down

Murder Most Fab is a slick page-turner, darkly funny, incongruously believable ... you are completely swept along by it

This debut novel is both a shock and rather shocking. Julian Clary does good fiction

Black comedy runs riot as a rent boy turns killer and then TV celebrity ... a hilarious dark ride

With his high camp and filthy humour, Clary is as entertaining on paper as he is on stage

Murder Most Fab is filthy, very funny and will be adored by his fans

Clary is a good writer ... A bit as you'd expect the author himself to be, Murder Most Fab has a dirty mouth and scant regard for morals but it is also very pleasant company

With all the ingredients that made Clary a success, plus an extra-large helping of sinister storytelling, Murder Most Fab is viciously funny and deliciously salacious

Julian Clary is one of Britain's most loved entertainers. His memoir A Young Man's Passage was a Sunday Times bestseller. Murder Most Fab is his first novel. He lives in Camden and Kent.

Hello, I'm Johnny Debonair and this is my book - Murder Most Fab. Buy it. You won't regret it. Everything that has happened so publicly is explained. Of course, I'd prefer it if you remember me as I was at my height, before the past caught up with me so spectacularly - TV's Mr Friday Night with an enviable lifestyle and the nation at my feet. My fame might have looked easy to you at the time, but getting to the top of the celebrity ladder is hard work. It took talent, beauty, commitment and, uniquely in my case, a number of unfortunate deaths. If we were being picky you might describe me as a serial killer, but I really don't see myself that way. It sounds trite to say 'one thing led to another' but it's true. 
 
As you'll discover I owe something of my rise and my fall to three individuals: my mother, an eccentric country girl who taught me exhibitionism by hanging naked from the clocktower of Hythe town hall; Catherine, my best friend, then partner in business &shy;- a devil in red heels, who, in her clear Essex accent, taught me how to 'look after number one'; and Timothy, who broke my heart and caused me to seek refuge in sex, money and celebrity. 
 
But in the end you have to take responsibility for your own actions. No one was forcing me, were they? I hope you, the public, can forgive me and enjoy this sordid tale for what it is &shy;- my final entertainment for you.

A Young Man's Passage

Stunning debut from one of Britain's most loved comic entertainers

An amazing story ... a human testament worthy of a hundred of the more luvvy memoirs spouting self-congratulation

A witty, charming autobiography

This is a beautifully honest and sensitive account of a life and career stuffed full of surprising detail. I, for one, never knew Julian was gay

Hilarious and poignant by turns, it's an honest and detailed account

Conceived in broad daylight in Clacton-on-Sea in the summer of 1958, Julian was born the following May to Peter Clary, a policeman, and Brenda. He lived in Surbiton with his parents and two older sisters, looking after guinea pigs and never even going to a single disco, until he left for Goldsmith's College at 18 to study Drama. From this epoch, the real Julian Clary catapulted himself to stardom. A veteran of the Edinburgh Festival and Royal Variety Show with countless other stage and screen credits, Julian recently reached the latter stages of the BBC's celebrity ballroom dancing contest, Strictly Come Dancing, and is now the face of BBC One's primetime National Lottery show, Come and Have A Go. He lives in Camden Town with a cat called Gloria and a little mongrel called Valerie.

This is Julian Clary's story, in his own words - the tale of an awkward schoolboy who became a huge worldwide success on stage and screen. 
 
After a sheltered suburban upbringing, Julian was sent to St Benedict's, where beatings from 'holy' men gave him some brutal life lessons, and other 'unholy' boys his first awakenings of sexuality. He had just one true friend and ally, Nick - to his other school peers, Julian's aloof demeanour made him an enigma or simply a figure of ridicule. In school he was just another pained adolescent, but inside Julian was a new Jean Genet or Quentin Crisp bursting to get out. 
 
Leaving St Benedict's thankfully behind him, Julian went on to college where he found his true vocation as an entertainer with a peculiar comic brand of smut and glamour. At the same time, he was finding as much sex as he could, sometimes with remarkably less-than-glamorous characters. 
 
Periods in community theatre and the singing telegram industry followed before Julian hit the big time with cabaret co-star Fanny the Wonder Dog as The Joan Collins Fan Club. Soon, the world was his oyster. But fame came at a price, as Julian struggled not only with the reality of being a high-profile gay man in the 1980s but also the pain of losing his lover to terminal illness. 
 
Far more than just another celebrity autobiography or 'funny book', this is a touching, beautifully written and wryly witty account of a unique progression from shy child to comedy icon.

Julian Clary

Briefs Encountered is quite as hilarious, clever, stylish, charming and wickedly witty as Noel Coward... It would easier to stab a puppy or slap a baby than to dislike such an utterly lovable book.'

Julian Clary is a smart and as funny as ever...a delicious airy treat

So clever, so funny, so romantic, and scary too. I don't know how she does it!

So funny ... Clary switches effortlessly between eras and demonstrates an inspired eye for comic detail.

Clary has produced a surprisingly complex, artfully constructed and mostly very convincing novel, which isn’t bogged down by its intelligence or his obvious research. Indeed, it’s all dressed up in delightfully accessible, sharp prose that’s full of gags.

Whoever said the afterlife would be easy...? 
 
The new inhabitants of an old house in deepest darkest Kent are about to discover the previous owner – a certain Mr Noël Coward – never quite left the building... 
 
A wickedly dark ghost story about love, scandals and things that go bump in the night.

Briefs Encountered

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Briefs Encountered is quite as hilarious, clever, stylish, charming and wickedly witty as Noel Coward... It would easier to stab a puppy or slap a baby than to dislike such an utterly lovable book.'

Julian Clary is a smart and as funny as ever...a delicious airy treat

So clever, so funny, so romantic, and scary too. I don't know how she does it!

Briefs Encountered is quite as hilarious, clever, stylish, charming and wickedly witty as Noel Coward... It would easier to stab a puppy or slap a baby than to dislike such an utterly lovable book.'

Julian Clary is a smart and as funny as ever...a delicious airy treat

So clever, so funny, so romantic, and scary too. I don't know how she does it!

Briefs Encountered is quite as hilarious, clever, stylish, charming and wickedly witty as Noel Coward... It would easier to stab a puppy or slap a baby than to dislike such an utterly lovable book.'

Julian Clary is a smart and as funny as ever...a delicious airy treat

So clever, so funny, so romantic, and scary too. I don't know how she does it!

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