In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA.

Steakknife.

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Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.

Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,

where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.

With me today is the fashion designer and sometime musician Pam Hogg, who over the years

has dressed a galaxy of stars from Susie Sue and Debbie Harry to Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga,

Bjerk, Taylor Swift, Kate Moss, the list is long.

Here with her is the actor turned stand-up turned novelist Mark Billingham, author of the best-selling

crime fiction series featuring Detective Tom Thorn, of which the most recent, Their Little Secret,

has just been published.

Let's start with you, Pam Hogg, with your choice of a good read, which is what?

Well, my choice is Geek Love by Catherine Dunn.

I actually read it when it came out in the 80s

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