Glorious Exploits is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Ferdia Lennon and was published by Fig Tree in January. Ferdia is from Dublin and studied History and Classical Studies at University College Dublin before joining the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction). He graduated in 2014. His work has been published in a number of journals and anthologies and in 2012 he was shortlisted for the Sean O’ Faolain Short Story Competition, was longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2019, and in 2020 was longlisted for the Galley Begger Prize.