Edel Coffey

Dublin, Galway

#1 bestselling author of Breaking Point. Winner of the An Post Crime Fiction Book of the Year Award. Books Editor at The Gloss. Agent: Marianne Gunn-O'Connor

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Articles

Writer's Block: An Interview with Author Patricia Scanlon

4 days ago | thegloss.ie | Edel Coffey

ON HOME I moved to Clontarf 20 years ago so I would probably still be considered a blow-in. I love being so close to the sea. I have a very serene, mature, shrub-filled back garden, where I can wind down after a long day on the computer. ON ROOTS I grew up in Stormanstown Road in Wadelai, Ballygall, before we moved a short distance to Hillcrest Park. I actually named our new estate. Every household was invited to suggest a name.
THE GLOSS Reading List: 40 Of The Best Books So Far This Year

1 week ago | thegloss.ie | Edel Coffey

A reading list of the best books of the year so far, featuring literary icons, blockbusters, iconic memoirs, romance, mystery and short stories … First up, my book of possibly the year? – is DREAM COUNT (4th Estate, €23.20) by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
The Books On Author Cathy Kelly's Bedside Table

1 week ago | thegloss.ie | Edel Coffey

What does a bestselling author read in her spare time? Cathy Kelly is the bestselling Irish author of 22 novels, which have been translated into several languages. She is also a Goodwill Ambassador for Unicef Ireland. Her latest novel, Sisterhood, published by Harper Collins, is out now.
Show Me Where It Hurts by Claire Gleeson: A multi-faceted and compelling story about the society we live in

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Edel Coffey

Show Me Where It Hurts Author: Claire GleesonISBN-13: 978-1399734721Publisher: SceptreGuideline Price: £18.99Claire Gleeson’s quietly compelling debut novel, Show Me Where It Hurts, opens with a horrifying scene. Rachel and Tom are an average busy married couple with two small children. Tom is an architect whose business has been decimated by the economic crash, and Rachel is a nurse. The loss of Tom’s business has left them struggling to cope, but managing.
The Marriage Vendetta by Caroline Madden: A charming and original debut

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Edel Coffey

The Marriage Vendetta Author: Caroline Madden ISBN-13: 978-1804189511Publisher: EriuGuideline Price: £13.99The idea for Irish writer Caroline Madden’s debut novel, The Marriage Vendetta, began life many years ago. Madden was interested in writing historical fiction when she came across the story of Elizabeth Linley, an English soprano who was one of the most celebrated singers of the 1700s.
Author Kit de Waal on storytelling: ‘You’ve got to be as good as Martin Scorsese’

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Edel Coffey

Everything about Kit de Waal is cool. From her signature quiff to her no-nonsense attitude and sentences punctuated with swear words, she seems to be one part punk-rocker, one part sagacious matriarch. She’s speaking over Zoom from her light-filled home in Leamington Spa, not too far from Birmingham, the city where she and her four Irish-Caribbean siblings grew up.
10 New Books To Add To Your Reading List

2 weeks ago | thegloss.ie | Edel Coffey

A host of new releases featuring literary icons, blockbusters, iconic memoirs, romance, mystery and short stories … Joan Didion fans have been patiently waiting for the publication of NOTES TO JOHN (4th Estate, €23) a collection of notes Didion wrote in 1999 about her sessions with a psychiatrist.
Ten Thrilling New Books To Add To Your Reading List

1 month ago | thegloss.ie | Edel Coffey

Spring brings with it a host of literary offerings … First up, my book of the month – and possibly the year? – is DREAM COUNT (4th Estate, €23.20) by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami: A Kafkaesque world of unknowable rules

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Edel Coffey

The Dream Hotel Author: Laila Lalami ISBN-13: 978-1526685193Publisher: Bloomsbury CircusGuideline Price: £16.99Reading dystopian fiction in dystopian times may feel slightly masochistic, but Moroccan-American author Laila Lalami’s fifth novel, The Dream Hotel, longlisted this week for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, exerts such a narrative stranglehold on the reader that it is impossible to look away.
What's On My Bedside Table? What Books Author Sam Blake Is Reading Now

1 month ago | thegloss.ie | Edel Coffey

Sam Blake is a bestselling crime author with a string of novels to her name. From Hertfordshire, she now lives in the Wicklow Mountains … Sam Blake founded the writing resources website writing.ie, along with The Inkwell Group publishing consultancy and Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival. She is Chair of the Board of the Society of Authors.