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, today, love is in the air.

We celebrate 20 years of Sarah Waters' groundbreaking novel, Tipping the Velvet,

and Reveal the New Look, Mills and Boone.

But we start with an author who's regularly focused his forensic eye on the nature of love

throughout his illustrious career.

From his debut, Metroland to the Booker Prize winning

the sense of an ending, Julian Barnes' dissection of relationships, deliberations on the vagaries of

memory, and his eye for the feral undercurrents of Sun-Kiss-Suburbia have made his forays into

our emotional interiors, unmissable literary events. The only story, his latest, is no

exception, as it explores the rise and destruction of the love affair between its narrator Paul

and his lover Susan. He's a 19-year-old university student idling away his university summer

back home with his parents. She, an unhappily married mother of two,

30 years his senior. My attitude to our love was peculiarly straightforward.

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