Tadhg Coakley is the award winning author of five books. His debut novel The First Sunday in September was shortlisted for the Mercier Fiction Prize and published in 2018 to much acclaim. His crime novel Whatever It Takes (Part 1 of the Tim Collins Series) was chosen as the 2020 Cork, One City One Book. Everything (a sports autobiography, which he co-wrote with its subject, Denis Coughlan) was one of the 2020 sports books of the year in The Sunday Times, The Irish Examiner and The Irish Times. His bestselling memoir The Game: A Journey into the Heart of Sport (2022) was described in The Irish Examiner as ‘one of the most distinctive, original, beautiful and best books on sport this country has known’. Tadhg’s short stories, articles and essays have been widely published.
