Ferdia Lennon

2 weeks ago | thebookseller.com | Philip Jones |Ferdia Lennon

Don’t judge me. Over the past few weeks, I have been resurfacing books from my past as I fill the bookshelves of my new flat. Here is Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, The Ka of Gifford Hillary by Dennis Wheatley, Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School, Hunter S Thompson’s The Great Shark Hunt, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Lightning by Dean Koontz, Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry, and the beloved Love Is a Dog from Hell by the poet and all around bad influence, Charles Bukowski.

2 weeks ago | thebookseller.com | Maia Snow |Ferdia Lennon

Michelle de Kretser has won the $60,000 Stella Prize, Australia’s most prestigious women’s literary prize. She takes home the 2025 prize for her novel Theory & Practice (Sort of Books). Following her win, she will be in the UK speaking about her book at Charleston Festival, Hay Festival, the Southbank Centre and at a DallowDay event with Hatchards, London.

2 weeks ago | thebookseller.com | Ferdia Lennon |Philip Jones

News Glorious Exploits, written by Ferdia Lennon, has won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Novelist Tracy Chevalier presented Lennon’s publisher with £2,500 at a reception at the National Liberal Club in London on 21st May. Chevalier said: "Glorious Exploits is a remarkable leap of the imagination into 4th-century BC Sicily, where two young potters have the madcap idea of directing Athenian prisoners in a Euripides play.

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.

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.