Willie Nelson, at 82, has written an autobiography and Billy O’Callaghan finds it full of music, humour, thoughtfulness and insight culled from lessons learned the painful way — and surprisingly confessional.

Diary of the Fall

American Sara Taylor has, at 24, written a startling debut. Billy O’Callaghan discovers a writer eager to push the boundaries of fiction in a moving but frightening way.

The Dark Meadow

Susan Hill

Rebecca Solnit

Juan Rulfo

By Robert Allison

A Soldier’s Wife

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Mark O’Sullivan, who has just published his tenth novel Sleeping Dogs, tells Billy O’Callaghan that his books are like Nordic Noir icon Kurt Wallander’s ... but with a relieving sense of humour.