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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Bulgarkov's Master and Margarita, and we celebrate the centenary of the Hogarth Press.

But first, with summer holidays fast approaching, many of us are going to be in search of a good

thriller, and Ruth Ware has certainly proved her credentials,

with two best-selling crime titles already to her name, and her latest, The Lying Game, about to be published.

Female friendships have been a focus in her stories, and the latest is no exception, when four childhood friends are reunited, compelled by an ominous text message.

It is 3.30am and I am very, very awake, pacing the cold kitchen floor, biting at my

fingernails to try and quell the longing for a cigarette. I haven't touched one for nearly 10 years,

but the need for one ambushes me at odd moments of stress and fear.

I need you.

I don't need to ask what it means because I know.

Just as I know who sent it, even though it's from a number I don't recognise.

Kate.

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