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• John Butler's novel The Tenderloin shortlisted for this year's Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards

  Congratulations to John Butler, whose debut novel The Tenderloin - published earlier this year by Picador - has been shortlisted in the Sunday Independent Best Irish Newcomer of the Year category of the Irish Book Awards. RTE Television will broadcast the highlights of the awards on 24th November at 10.45 p.m. The awards themselves take place in Dublin's Royal Dublin Society on 17th November. Here is a selection of the great reviews John's novel has received: 'Writer and filmmaker John Butler's debut novel is a bracingly honest, entertaining and sharply well-observed coming of age story set in San Francisco during the dotcom boom. His hero, Evan, is an intensely likeable Everyman, out of his depth in ForwardSlash, run by the slyly manipulative Sam. The Tenderloin is a story which could only have been written now, but whose themes, the loss of innocence, the difficulties of embarking on adult life, are universal.' --Irish Independent 'Debut coming-of-age novels are nothing new, but ones that freshen the genre are. John Butler s The Tenderloin, about three young Dublin twenty-somethings who head to San Francisco during the dotcom explosion of 1995, updates a familiar story without sacrificing those things we ve come to expect sexual exploration and identity, loneliness, the ambiguities of adulthood.' Independent 'The Tenderloin is well-written and drops all the right cultural references. Butler captures the flamoboyant optimism of the times' --Sunday Herald ‘John Butler already has a legion of fans who enjoy his insightful, funny and never less than brutally honest weekly column in the Irish Times. He is a refreshingly modern Irishman who regards the world from beneath a raised eyebrow . . . infectious’ Conor McPherson, playwright and director

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• The Tenderloin by John Butler acquired by Picador

  Picador has bought a debut novel by author John Butler. Publisher Paul Baggaley acquired World English Language Rights from Jonathan Conway at Mulcahy Conway Associates Ltd. Paul Baggaley said "I am hugely excited to be publishing John Butler's first novel, The Tenderloin. It is a very funny but also very moving story of a young Irishman coming of age in San Franciso in the 90s. John's feel for time and place is pitch perfect and Tenderloin heralds the arrival of a very exciting new talent." Set in 1995, The Tenderloin follows Evan as he embarks on an adventure that will change his life. An innocent born and bred in Dublin, when Evan lands in San Francisco with his best friend Milo, they discover a city on the cusp of a revolution. The bright lights of Microsoft, Netscape and Yahoo! illuminate this town and the rave scene has supplanted the Old World Order of peace, love and Deadheads. John Butler is an occasional columnist and interviewer for the Irish Times, and writes and directs for film and television. He wrote and directed award-winning short films for the Irish Film Board and the cult TV sketch show "Your Bad Self". Other work has been published in The Dublin Review, NPR and the San Francisco Chronicle. Picador will publish The Tenderloin in July 2011.