A young Australian journalist parachutes into a remote jungle in Papua New Guinea  …

A lost diary, a hidden jungle tribe, and an immortal trickster from another world collide in this novel about the secret history of genius. When a young Australian journalist meets Drew—a centuries‑old, red‑skinned being who has shaped human civilisation by injecting ‘butterfly juice’ into select prodigies—he’s drawn into a dazzling, unsettling tour of the world’s greatest minds. Shakespeare, Newton, Mozart, Beethoven, Blake, Jane Austen, Van Gogh, Turing: their brilliance, triumphs, and tragedies unfold as part of a vast alien experiment. The Eleventh Joke is a fast-paced, razor‑sharp burlesque by the author of Berzoo, The Quarters, Earth Redux, and the play The Choir.

Errol Bray is an internationally produced playwright; dramaturg; director of theatre, one film, local and international festivals, and writing projects; his novels include Berzoo, The Quarters, and Earth Redux.

304 pp C format paperback

ISBN: 978-1-7645843-1-9 (paperback)