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. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

Hello, if you're feeling lethargic after weeks of isolation,

this week's programme will put a pep in your step

with an array of literary fixes from the four corners of the globe.

And that's only a slight exaggeration.

Despite the fact I'm broadcasting from my daughter's bedroom,

we're off to the Antipodes for a reader's guide to the New Zealand Maori writer Patricia Grace in a rare encounter talking about her powerful novel Portiki, and for the time poor, we've literary solutions from the home counties to Denmark.

But first, we're liming to a Sooka Beat as we hit the Caribbean for a debut novel

from a mature starter, Ingrid Persaud. Already a master of succinct fiction having won the BBC

National Short Story Award two years ago and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017,

now she's delivered her first long form.

Love after love is a series of snapshots of daily life seen through the eyes of three characters,

forming an unconventional family in modern-day Trinidad, where Ingrid herself grew up.

Betty is newly widowed from her violent husband Sineal and takes in a lodger, Mr Chayton,

who develops a strong bond with her son solo. Here's a reading.

Before you go, come let me whisper something in your ears.

He smiled and came close.

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