About

Merryn Corcoran is a best-selling novelist, Executive Producer, Production Designer and Publicist.

Merryn Corcoran is a best-selling novelist, Executive Producer, Production designer and publicist.

Merryn was born in Christchurch New Zealand in the late 1950’s. She always believed there was far more on her horizon than she could find in the two islands of her birth country. After training as a nurse, working as a fashion model and opening her own shop before she was 21 she left to travel the world. The mistress of “reinvention”, Merryn firmly found her feet in London as a successful entrepreneur.

Merryn led a fund-raising committee for 10 years which was instrumental in raising a million pounds for UNICEF UK via an annual Celebrity Ball. She was made an UNICEF Honorary Fellow in 2007.

In 2012 she swapped the world of business to write. Her first novel, The Silent Village, was published in 2013 becoming a best seller in New Zealand and Australia and one of three finalists in the The People’s Book Prize competition 2015 in the UK.

Her subsequent novels, The Paris Inheritance and The Peacock Room were also best sellers in New Zealand, and The Peacock Room made the UK WH Smiths summer holiday choice reads 2019. Her most recent novel Behind the Butterfly Gate was published in 2021.

Merryn joined her daughter Emily Corcoran in the family film production company Cork Films, where she has taken in an active role since the challenges of Covid. Whilst Emily who is CEO of Cork Films has an acting background, alongside being a script writer she also raises the production funding. Merryn is involved in set, costume design, locations and handles publicity.

Merryn is married to Tim Corcoran a corporate lawyer. They divide their time between London, where they have lived for the past 35 years, and the South of France.