Described as “one of the most original and brilliant debuts in years” by The Irish Times, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits has had quite the journey.
It won the prestigious Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize; beat David Nicholls and Dolly Alderton to win The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction (for which a pig gets named after the winning novel, but we’ll let Ferdia tell you about that) and has been picked as a Book of the Year by countless media outlets.
Set in 412 BC Sicily and told in contemporary Irish brogue, it follows two unemployed potters with a soft spot for poetry and drink who attempt to stage Medeain a quarry using a cast of Athenian prisoners.
Intrigued? You should be. Don’t miss Maggie Tweedie meeting him.
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