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Liar

An “outrageously hilarious” novel about a young man who has trouble with the truth (The Boston Globe).

Adrian Healey loves to lie. He does it all the time. Every minute, every moment. And worse, he does it wonderfully, imaginatively, brilliantly. He lies to buck the system, to express his contempt for convention, but mostly because he just plain likes to. It’s fun.

He invents a lost pornographic novel by Charles Dickens, and, for himself, a career as a Piccadilly rent boy, hireable by the hour. But Adrian’s lies eventually bring true danger, as he finds himself caught up in the machinations of a shadowy network that puts his own life at risk, in this “clever and entertaining novel that will appeal to Anglophiles with a twisted sense of humor” (Library Journal).

Stephen Fry

<p>Stephen Fry was born in London in 1957 and educated at Stout's Hill, Uppingham, and Queens' College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he joined the Footlights, where he first met Hugh Laurie. He has numerous television appearances to his credit, most notably, <em>A Bit of Fry and Laurie</em>, <em>Jeeves and Wooster</em>, <em>Blackadder</em>, <em>QI</em>, and <em>House</em>. Major film roles include Peter in <em>Peter's Friends</em> (1990) and Oscar Wilde in <em>Wilde</em> (1997); in the realm of television, his critically acclaimed <em>The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive</em> won an Emmy. He is the author of the best selling novels <em>The Liar</em>, <em>The Hippopotamus</em>, <em>Making History</em>, and <em>Revenge: A Novel</em>, as well as the highly acclaimed autobiography <em>Moab Is My Washpot</em> and, in 2005, a well-received guide to writing poetry, <em>The Ode Less Travelled</em>.</p>

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