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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Reality and fiction entwined today through the real-life exploits of Bram Stoker

and a best-selling slice of Swedish auto-fiction about love, loss and the demands of motherhood.

But we start by starting again, with two new books examining the pleasures of rereading.

Earlier this year, the Japanese word Sondoku caught the imagination of the literary world.

It's the practice of buying books and letting them stack up unread, and people took to Twitter

to post guilty images of their teetering TBR piles to be read to you and me,

which all begs the question, if we don't even have time for the new books we're buying,

who's doing any rereading? And for those who do, what does it have to offer?

Pen in hand, reading, rereading and other mysteries by Tim Parks,

and reading, a very short introduction by Belinda Jack

attempt to answer these questions

and Tim and Belinda join me now

Tim there are so many books to read in the world

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