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  • Published: 15 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780091938857
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

Briefs Encountered




Noel Coward meets Julian Clary in this dark and wickedly funny ghost story!

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.

  • Published: 15 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780091938857
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Julian Clary

Julian Clary is a comedian, entertainer and novelist, who has toured across the world with his one-man shows. He became a household name in the late 1980s, and remains one of the country’s most popular (and least predictable) entertainers. Julian has appeared on numerous popular TV shows including Celebrity Big Brother (which he won), Strictly Come Dancing, This Morning, QI, Have I Got News For You and is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Just a Minute. He has starred in West End productions of Taboo and Cabaret, and appears in panto most years – he loves wearing silly clothes and lots of make up! Julian also narrates the Little Princess children’s television series. He lives in London with his husband.

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Praise for Briefs Encountered

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

Fay Weldon

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.'

Stephen Fry

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

Daily Mail

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.

Daily Mirror

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

Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times