NOT UNTRUE NOT UNKIND PB B FORMAT – ED OLOUGHLIN

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. In Dublin, a newspaper editor is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on the dead man s desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once again, to a dusty road in Africa and to the woman he once loved … Not Untrue and Not Unkind is Owen s story – a gripping story of friendship, rivalry and betrayal amongst a group of journalists and photographers covering Africa s wars. A remarkably assured and mature debut, it is a tale utterly for our times. A simply brilliant debut by an author of great poise and power Tim Butcher, author of Blood River A fine, darkly authoritative novel Joseph O Neill, author of Netherland The most exciting first novel I have read in many years Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2007 Graceful Guardian Superb The Times Gripping Daily Mail