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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Famously, nothing happens twice in Samuel Beckett's minimalist play waiting for Godo.

Fifty years after winning the Nobel Prize, we delve into his prose.

Everything seems to happen, though, to Queenie, the heroine of a highly anticipated new novel

about a young

black British millennial managing a complicated love life. I'll meet its author, Candice Carty

Williams. But we begin with a powerfully unsettling story about toxic masculinity and the long

legacies of colonial violence by the Scottish writer Damien Barr.

You Will Be Safe Here is Barr's first novel, but it dispenses with the cliche of the autobiographical

debut. Instead, Barr turns his attention to South Africa and tells the twin stories of Sarah van

DeWatt and Willem Brandt. Sarah is an Africana woman who, along with her six-year-old son, Fred,

is forced from the family farm into a British-run concentration camp

during the Second Boer War.

And Willem is a shy and bookish teenager in post-Apartite South Africa.

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