The Witness: A criminal life cloaked in the darkest shadows

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