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.

I had that autumn arrived with my one suitcase, a guitar and a portable Olivetti typewriter in Buxton, Norfolk,

a small village with an old watermill and flat farm fields all around it.

I'd come to this place because I'd been accepted on a one-year postgraduate creative writing course at the University of East Anglia.

When I went to UEA on the ferry with my typewriter and a suitcase,

I almost stood in the prow of the boat.

I thought I was leaving Ireland for my destiny.

And my destiny was to be a great writer.

I had forgotten that you have to actually write a few pages along the way.

So that was a great shock.

A rude awakening there for Anne Enright and before her the words of Kazio Ishiguru,

between them winners of two Booker Prizes and a Nobel,

and both graduates of the University of East Anglia's groundbreaking creative writing, MA.

That course certainly contributed to Norwich becoming England's first UNESCO city of literature in 2012, with its literary pedigree extending back to the 14th century when Julian of Norwich

became the first woman to publish a book in English. That's why I'm here for this special edition of Open Book,

where we're shining a spotlight on the city's literary culture.

I'll be meeting the couple behind Galley Beggar Press,

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