Awards and Press
Short-listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award
Gold Medal Winner for LGBTQ+ Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)
LGBTQ2 Fiction Winner, Best Indie Book Award (BIBA)
Queer Forty’s “Best Pride Reads for Summer 2023”
The Gay and Lesbian Review
“Throughout [Disorderly Men]. Cahill keeps us eager to know what’s coming next: what indignities and setbacks his characters are going to endure, what shards of their lives they will be able to hold onto. He does an excellent job of creating distinct, easily identifiable dialog, and characters whose different responses to their plights are completely believable. ”
Passport Magazine's “Best Books for August 2023”
"Story and style are perfectly aligned in Edward Cahill’s swiftly-paced period piece...utterly absorbing.”
“Faceted and compelling, Edward Cahill’s novel evokes a pre-Stonewall era of subversion, persecution, and growing defiance.”
“Atmospheric, compelling, and impeccably detailed, Cahill's novel offers a midcentury snapshot into a dangerous, risk-suffused bygone world…[a story of] crushing beauty.”
"Although a work of fiction, the author has so accurately portrayed the times….especially and unreservedly recommended.”
Fordham Magazine
"Cahill depicts [his characters’] crises with pathos, humor, and suspense. And like the best historical fiction, Disorderly Men not only evokes a bygone era but also feels especially vital today.”