A Rebel and a TraitorRory Carroll, Mudlark, £17.50THIS is another foray into literature by Rory Carroll, away from his day job as the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent. An earlier venture was the highly acclaimed Killing Thatcher (Mudlark, 2024) based around the Brighton bomb which nearly took out the entire British Cabinet, not just the Prime Minister. This book covers an earlier period of the complex relationship of Britain and Ireland, and the latter’s struggle for freedom from being England’s first colony.