Ferdia Lennon was born and raised in Dublin. He holds a BA in History and Classics from University College Dublin and an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. Glorious Exploits is his first novel. A Sunday Times bestseller, it has been widely translated and was adapted for BBC Radio 4 and selected as a BBC2 Between the Covers book club pick. It was the winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024 and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and has been shortlisted for many other awards. After several years in Paris, he now lives in Norwich with his wife and son.