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 as President Trump announces fresh sanctions against Iran,

we look at the state of literature in the country.

And Neil Gaiman is here to tell us about the forgotten fantasy novel we should all be reading.

But first, Claire Fuller, whose Desmond Elliott prize-winning debut are endless numbered days,

about an eight-year-old raised by a survivalist father, shut her straight into the literary A-list.

Her new novel, Bitter Orange, similarly focuses on characters off the grid.

In this case, Francis, a 39-year-old spinster, finally liberated by the death of her controlling mother.

It's the summer of 69, and she's holed up in the attic of Linton's, a crumbling stately home

which she's employed to compile an inventory of the garden for the new American owner.

Cataloging the contents of the house itself are a couple, Peter and Kara, who appear as carefree and owner. Cataloging the contents of the house itself are a couple, Peter and Cara, who appear

as carefree and liberated as Francis is uptight and socially awkward. What follows in this

gothic setting against the searing heat of that long ago summer is recanted by Francis as she

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