Stephen Jackley’s efforts to steal from the rich and give to the poor saw him come a cropper before long, as retold in this entertaining account of his life of crime

Sam Blake ramps up the tension in this page-turning murder mystery as Rachel and Caroline, the only residents in a remote hotel, investigate a decades-old suicide and a recent disappearance

The film-maker has stepped away from the camera to write a new novel about the 1798 rebellion, seen through the eyes of a scion of landed gentry and a runaway slave

In his third novel, Billy O’Callaghan draws on his own family history to tell a profoundly moving story of grief, pain and fortitude

Journalist and former BBC Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler sees the United Kingdom dying before his eyes

Trish Kearney was repeatedly abused by swimming coach George Gibney as a child, an ordeal she chronicles in this moving memoir

His first two books, To Be a Machine and Notes from an Apocalypse, have set him apart as one of the foremost thinkers and writers of his time. Here, the author talks transhumanism, doomsday preppers and billionaire bunkers.

The award-winning writer has woven his way through life with words

Austin Duffy’s impressive second novel is centred on a widowed father struggling with early dementia

John Preston’s biography of the late tycoon Robert Maxwell is impressively researched and thoroughly readable

The Cork-based novelist puts her stories through as many as 50 or 60 drafts, but what results each time is a perfectly crafted piece of art

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’s new book is a roadmap through the environmental consequences and commercial realities of climate change

Laura McKenna’s debut novel is loosely based on the real-life historical figures of former slave Tony Small and his master Lord Edward Fitzgerald, telling the tale of their journey from the American Revolution to the Irish rebellion of 1798

Lenny Kravitz’s recounting of his first 25 years is a frustrating read, never truly getting under his skin

Rachel Ryan’s first novel has a number of weaknesses, but is carried by a strikingly original plot and strong characterisation

Dan Morain’s biography of the US vice-president is well-observed and diligent, but frustratingly lacking in inside detail

A new collection of essays about Charles Stewart Parnell is often rambling and unfocused

Bruce Wagner’s entertaining new novel was turned down by a publisher for allegedly ‘problematic’ content, but is now available for free

Historians

Ashley Audrain’s new thriller, optioned for Hollywood, is an often gruesome meditation on the dark side of rearing children