9th June, 7.30pm - Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

Monday 9th June, 7:30pm

Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP

We're thrilled to have Ferdia Lennon at Backstory to talk about his incredible debut novel Glorious Exploits. A team favourite, Glorious Exploits is a mad, sad, funny and unique novel that explores the piercing quality of art and storytelling in times of war. 

About the book:

Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON: visionary, dreamer, theatre lover.

Enter LAMPO: lovesick, jobless, in need of a distraction. Imprisoned in the quarries of Syracuse, thousands of defeated Athenians hang on by the thinnest of threads. They’re fading in the baking heat, but not everything is lost: they can still recite lines from Greek tragedy when tempted by Lampo and Gelon with goatskins of wine and scraps of food.

And so an idea is born. Because, after all, you can hate the invaders but still love their poetry. It’s audacious.

It might even be dangerous. But like all the best things in life – love, friendship, art itself – it will reveal the very worst, and the very best, of what humans are capable of. What could possibly go wrong?

Tickets Available:

Ticket only - £15 (This ticket does not include a copy of the book. You can decide to buy a copy on the night, but this will be charged in addition, at the full price of the book.)

Ticket & book  (RRP £9.99) - £20 (To collect on the night or in advance.)