“Passionate, colorful….Love story and tragedy, mystery and professional satire (à la Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop) all rolled into one.”—Irish Times

“Fantastic writing, great subject….The most exciting first novel I have read in many years.”—Anne Enright

“A fine, darkly authoritative novel.”—Joseph O’Neill

 In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright’s desk containing a photograph that brings him back to a dusty road in Africa and to a woman he once loved.

Not Untrue & Not Unkind is Owen’s story, a gripping tale of friendship, rivalry, and betrayal among a group of journalists and photographers covering Africa’s wars. It is an astonishingly powerful and accomplished debut that immediately establishes Ed O’Loughlin as a mature master of the novel form.

 Ed O’Loughlin was born in Toronto and raised in Ireland. He reported from Africa for the Irish Times and other papers and was Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age of Melbourne. Not Untrue & Not Unkind is his first novel. He lives in Ireland.