"Ed O'Loughlin grew up in Kildare town, Ireland, where he moved from his native Toronto, Canada, aged six. His first novel, Not Untrue & Not Unkind was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009 and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. His second novel, Toploader, a darkly comic vision of the ""war against terror"", was published by Quercus in 2011. His third novel, Minds of Winter, was published in August 2016. He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children."
An incredibly fast-paced literary thriller, tricksy & crammed with ideas, beautifully written, occupying its own unique territory somewhere between Graham Greene & William Gibson -- Kevin Power Sharp, witty and so well-written, with a plot that intrigues till the end. The Thirty-Nine Steps for the modern age. -- Christine Dwyer Hickey This Eden is a delight, a rollicking ride that never lets up, with a surprising - and emotionally rich - ending. And if that were the sum of it, This Eden would be a terrific read. But, as readers of O'Loughlin's Giller-nominated, multifaceted historical mystery Minds of Winter might have guessed, there is much more to the novel than that' * Quill and Quire * Teeming with ideas and invention, hurtling from Vancouver to Jordan to Paris, from a gorilla sanctuary in Uganda to the dark pools of the high-frequency traders where money itself seems on the point of coming alive, This Eden is a searing depiction of a world teetering on the brink of technological abyss, a rallying cry for those who want to save it, and an exhilarating, bleeding-edge thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. -- Paul Murray