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Jan 8, 2025 | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Hisham Matar |Ferdia Lennon |Percival L. Everett
For the benefit of new subscribers, every January I depart from my usual screeds about the SEC and corporate governance and indulge in the slightly less nerdy exercise of telling you about my favorite books of the year gone by. As regular readers know, unlike the New York Times and other publications, my favorite books are those I read in 2024, regardless of their publication dates.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Ferdia Lennon
My earliest reading memory I was seven. It was a book called Run With the Wind, by Tom McCaughren, which is like an Irish riff on Watership Down but with foxes instead of rabbits. I loved it. My favourite book growing upAlexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers. I think I was 12. I remember finding it funny, gripping and yet also much darker than I’d expected.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Ferdia Lennon
🏆 Winner of the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Recommendations from our site “This is a book set during the Peloponnesian war but its characters could be existing today, and are written by an Irish writer with an Irish lilt. But somehow it works.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
kmuw.org | Beth Golay |Ferdia Lennon |Douglas Westerbeke |Kimberly Parsons
KMUW's Beth Golay & Suzanne Perez are back after a 3 month unintentional break, and they're joined by the folks at Exile in Bookville to talk about books coming out in June.
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May 28, 2024 | 
thecreativeindependent.com | Ferdia Lennon
Writer Ferdia Lennon discusses the importance of deep research, cutting pages from your drafts, and balancing family and creative work. Writing, Time management, Family, Inspiration Part of: Developing a creative process Making time for creative work Finding balance Highlights on Can you tell me your novel’s life story? I studied Classical Studies in university.
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May 1, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Ferdia Lennon |Alicia Hernandez
BookBrowse:
In theatre, kings and nobles are the usual protagonists of tragedies, while comedy is reserved for the ordinary. Such are Lampo and Gelon, the protagonists of Glorious Exploits, a comedy that deals with the tragedy of war.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Ferdia Lennon
I confess that I was first drawn to Ferdia Lennon’s GLORIOUS EXPLOITS by its googly-eyed cover. Blending the serious with the silly, the ancient with the modern, I was intrigued by what I might find inside. That playful approach, with a serious undertone, does in fact mirror what readers will encounter in the pages of this debut novel. Set in the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War on the island of Sicily, the book focuses on two unemployed potters in the city of Syracuse.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
rte.ie | Ferdia Lennon
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Ferdia Lennon |Donna Edwards
This image released by Holt shows "Glorious Exploits" by Ferdia Lennon. (Holt via AP) Photo: Associated PressBest friends Lampo and Gelon are potters by trade, but their souls are filled with poetry. It’s 412 B.C. and the city of Syracuse doesn’t know what hit it when these two hatch up the best worst idea: They’ll put on a play using the Athenian prisoners of war who are starving to death down in the rock quarry.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
texarkanagazette.com | Ferdia Lennon |Henry Holt |Donna Edwards
"Glorious Exploits"By Ferdia Lennon; Henry Holt and Co. (304 pages,$ 21.07)Best friends Lampo and Gelon are potters by trade, but their souls are filled with poetry. It's 412 B.C. and the city of Syracuse doesn't know what hit it when these two hatch up the best worst idea: They'll put on a play using the Athenian prisoners of war who are starving to death down in the rock quarry.
