Congratulations to novelist Ferdia Lennon, who has just won the Waterstones debut fiction prize for his fantastic book, Glorious Exploits. It’s the story of two unemployed potters in 412 B.C. who stage a play in a Syracusian quarry using Athenian prisoners of war, and was my favourite book that I read last year. The Guardian’s description of it is as “riotous” is bang on and the prize couldn’t have gone to a nicer guy.
1. Author shot for Glorious Exploits, shot in Paris.
2. Portrait in a quarry in the Dublin mountains, for an ongoing series of Irish writers for Literature Ireland. When I brought Ferdia there he told me it was exactly the kind of place he’d imagined while writing the book.
