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2024 Nero book awards shortlist announced to celebrate ‘extraordinary writing talent’

The second run of the UK/Irish awards covers adult and children’s fiction, debut novels and nonfiction, with tales that stretch from surreal expeditions to lost sailors and schoolboy lizards

The Guardian - UK

Ferdia Lennon wins Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for ‘delightful’ novel

As part of the award, the author will have a gloucestershire old spots pig named after his debut book which is set in ancient Sicily

The Guardian - UK

Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo among books on Waterstones Book Of The Year shortlist

Previous winners range from Philip Pullman and Maggie O’Farrell to Charlie Mackesy, Paul McCartney and Katherine Rundell.

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Ferdia Lennon: ‘I was tired of Merchant Ivory accents’

The recent winner of the Waterstones debut fiction prize on literary friendships, the lucidity of Georges Simenon and Irish writing’s debt to the financial crash

The Guardian - UK

Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for “riotous” novel Glorious Exploits

Described as a ‘masterclass in tragicomedy’, the novel, set in Syracuse in 412BC, follows two locals who decide to stage Medea in a quarry using prisoners as actors

The Guardian - UK

Six ‘bold and playful’ novels shortlisted for Waterstones debut fiction prize

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley and Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly are among those in contention for award voted on by the company’s booksellers

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Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon review – uproarious am-dram in ancient Sicily

This witty debut novel, set in 412BC, imagines a couple of locals drumming up a production of Medea with captured Athenian soldiers

The Guardian - UK

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon review – classical tragedy as a Celtic caper

This clever debut uses a modern Irish vernacular for the tale of mismatched buddies staging Medea with Athenian prisoners in ancient Syracuse

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