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. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

Hello, today men and women get together, fall in love, fall out of love, decide they're better off with the cat.

And here with their choice of good read are two writers.

Sathnam Sangerra, columnist and feature writer for The Times, whose memoir The Boy with the Top Knot was adapted as a BBC drama, and whose first novel is called Marriage Material.

And Hadley Freeman, staff writer at The Guardian. She's the author among other books of Be Awesome, Modern Life for Modern Ladies,

and most recently her love letter to 1980s movies, Life Moves Pretty Fast. Hadley Freeman,

what is your suggestion for a good read? So my pick is the

Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank, which I love very dearly. It was a huge

publishing sensation when it came out in the States, kind of in the way that Bridger Jones's diary

was when it came out here. And they actually came out at the same time. And I would say that

those two novels, more than any, changed my life, really. They taught me about how a book could be so funny and precise and feel like it really speaks to your life personally and speaks to women's lives personally. And the reason I chose it is because I feel this book has kind of been forgotten in the past 20 years.

It was published in 99, wasn't it?

In 99.

And Melissa Bank then wrote a follow-up novel, which I would urge on listeners to read even more strongly than this one called The Wonder Spot, which is wonderful, wonderful novel.

And she hasn't written anything else since.

And it makes me sad that they are both packaged

in the US and the UK as just kind of junkie chitlet about a young woman looking for love,

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