Glorious Exploits

Glorious Exploits
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year by the Irish Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Debut Fiction Prize
Nominated for the British Book Award for Debut Fiction Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence
Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Named a Best Book of 2024 by Slate, The Guardian, and the New York Public Library An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they've herded the sorry prisoners of war into a rock quarry and left them to rot. Looking for a way to pass the time, Lampo and Gelon, two unemployed potters with a soft spot for poetry and drink, head down into the quarry to feed the Athenians if, and only if, they can manage a few choice lines from their great playwright Euripides. Before long, the two mates hatch a plan to direct a full-blown production of Medea. After all, you can hate the people but love their art. But as opening ni
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Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year by the Irish Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Debut Fiction Prize
Nominated for the British Book Award for Debut Fiction Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence
Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Named a Best Book of 2024 by Slate, The Guardian, and the New York Public Library An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they've herded the sorry prisoners of war into a rock quarry and left them to rot. Looking for a way to pass the time, Lampo and Gelon, two unemployed potters with a soft spot for poetry and drink, head down into the quarry to feed the Athenians if, and only if, they can manage a few choice lines from their great playwright Euripides. Before long, the two mates hatch a plan to direct a full-blown production of Medea. After all, you can hate the people but love their art. But as opening ni
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