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|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1529153298|title=The Lies You ToldList of Suspicious Things|author=Harriet TyceJennie Godfrey

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't happy about having sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to start move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a new schoolfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's left not worried about the school dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she loved was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York , in December 1923 and now only moved to Athens when shewas thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's going to Ashams make it more manageable in North Londonthe States. It's very upmarket; places are rare When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as hens' teeth an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the pupils have all been chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there ''forever''s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, they have their established groupsand his house gets trashed. RobinOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's going possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to be an outsiderdeserve all this bad luck. And why He is this happening? a nice person. A really nice person. WellSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, over who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a matter good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a few days her parentswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny' marriage fell aparts wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. Andrew Spence When she hears there is staying to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in New York - he works for a securities firm - young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her mothertoo, Sadie Roper, has come back and then to London escape them completely she runs away to pick up her practice sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a criminal barristercabin boy. That's easier said than done She soon finds herself in the thick of things when you've been out there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsocean waves.|isbn=0861547438

|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Antoine Laurain and Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh (translators)Penny Parkes|titlerating=The Readers Room4.5

|genre=General Fiction|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had After a bout of scarlet fever as a great successchild, and it was through the slush pile Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of unsolicited manuscriptssilence, everything about her life changes. The three people who work Living in a time when the Readers' Room use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to sift through what a school where she is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smashtaught to lip read, and so it has proven. But there are several 'howevers' to thatbut physically restrained from signing. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own wayFrom here, for she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been involved in a near-fatal accident, teaching the deaf and starts this book coming round from using a comasystem called Visible Speech. And, however – despite all urging, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to At the publishers in personsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and in factideas, offered and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailcomplicated tangle of espionage. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=19104779741035401614

|isbn=085752612XB0BC3YTCMR|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?Good Girls Die|author=Curtis SittenfeldAyura Ayira|rating=4.5

|summary=I was tempted to read ''RodhamThis story is not for everyone.'' by the success  Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. That book wasn't marketed as being She was a very bright student, a portrait of Laura Bushbit too nerdy if truth be told, but the word ''thinlyand suffered from vitiligo -veiled'' seemed people were afraid to occur very regularly hug her in reviewscase it's contagious. How would It''Rodham'' compare? Unfortunately, there s not easy being a black girl whose skin is a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bush, which gave the book a freshness which the first third of ''Rodham'' lacks84% white. We've all heard the stories, read the books She had a crush on seventeen-year- about Hillary and particularly about Billold Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. It's still an interesting concept, thoughThen he did: how would Hillary have fared Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's career, if would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she hadn't had gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to carry the burden of all Bill's baggage his house and if she hadn't left he raped her own run at the presidency so late? . Could In shock, she have done better without the Clinton surname?even allowed him to give her a lift home.

|authorisbn=Anstey Harris1472263936|title=Where We BelongThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary= I've always believed It was in 1968 that places and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this is how we can tell that a sacred space is sacredHelena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Cate Morris believes a similar thingShe was alone: her mother, she believes that ''A house absorbs happinessGreek by birth, it blooms into had left the wallpaperfamily home and refused to return, the wood of the window frames, the bricks: thatbut Mary and Hamish (Helena's how parents) felt that it becomes would be a homepity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage.'' She is having these thoughts as she packs Her trip to the family apartment in up her home-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She has grew to leavelove her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. A combination He was proud of circumstances means that is not only redundant his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but also homelesssaw no reason to accommodate them. With nowhere else to go, she has called on His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her late husbandfather's family for help. Just for a few weeksScottish ancestors.|isbn=1471173836

|author=Frederic Beigbeder Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank Wynne (translator)|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=A Life Without EndSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, ''Bill and disappointedly realised I have Amanda are living in a birthday this year – I knowsemi-detached house, yet another one. It won't be one stuck in a depressing rut of the major numbersboredom and disappointment, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the horizoncouples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. And then a few of the big 0-numbersBut all is not what it seems, and if all goes well, Itheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''ll be an OBE}}{{Frontpage|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. (Which of course stands He is everything she has been searching for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis; handsome, accomplished, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseclever, but he might be said to be living onefunny; total and utter husband-material. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as She is all he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the assistant to inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the first geneticist he interviews, wedding is planned and they end up with a childset. When the much-anticipated day arrives, which Alice is at least a way of continuing walked down the life of his genesaisle by her father, beaming with pride and a motive excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to keep ongoing. But how can he get celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to not flick face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the 'final way out' switchaltar is, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=16428606701662507089

|isbn=B08774SJYN1787636003|title=The Greenbecker GambitGirls of Summer|author=Ben GraffKatie Bishop

|summary=''I suppose It was the odd fleeting sense of loneliness is a price all truly successful people must pay for our gifts. I tell myself summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that I do so willingly.'' Tennessee Greenbeckershe and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Isn Rachel wasn't that a name to conjure with? There are hints that it might not have been the name he exactly innocent but she was given at birth, but many of us have moved onperhaps, naive, so far as names gowhen thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, from the one we were originally saddled withshe was flattered rather than wary. Greenbecker's life is one It was quite a while before he made any sort of constant reinvention. He tells us that he's the foremost chess player never physical approach to have been world champion, her and it does seem by that he has some considerable talent as far as chess goestime she was obsessed by him. He's determined that he's going to fulfil what he sees as Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his destiny. He just needs to do some study to be able to beat interests on the current players ranked at numbers one island and two in particular in the bar where all the world. Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will not stand in his waygirls either worked or partied.}}

|author=J Paul HendersonAmanda Craig|title=DaisyThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=This is Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the story state-of Herod S-the-nation novel. Pinkney, a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who is in search can catch hold of the atmosphere of a woman called Daisythe day and capture it, whom he first sees in crafting an episode image of Judge Judy on television and instantly falls the country as it stands in love one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with her! Rod is writing the novel genre of his quest, guided by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses in contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a pub gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a living. Determined to find way that feels natural and meet Daisylived-in, the book takes us through Rod's lifenever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, introduces us to his friends, and tells us of what happens in his quest for lovegrappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn=0857303309140871468X

{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 152915118X|title=The Silent Treatment Pineapple Street|author=Abbie Greaves Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5 |genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and his wife, Maggie, Frank Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is playing chess against his computermarried to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, although not very successfullyonly Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. MaggieThe problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, on Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the other handPineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, has just taken some pills - eight of thema street or so away, in fact - and before long she will collapsewhich they own. When Frank rings They won't need any of the emergency services furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in Oxford he has a bit of a problem. He has to admit Nominally, they had a choice but that he and Maggie havenwasn't actually spoken for a whilethe reality. How long? Well, itDarley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's about six months since he spoke to Maggie and he canliving in ''their''t really say if family home. They use it's likely so often that Maggie has tried they abbreviate it to take her own life'the GD'.

|author=Camilla BruceEmily Critchley|title=You Let Me InOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary= Eccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a year couple of years back and has been pronounced legally dead remember being absolutely floored by her lawyershow powerful and affecting it was. Her will instructs her niece and nephew to enter her home It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and find the key to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: the last story she'll ever tellrereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|isbn=1787633179

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedLucy Ashe|title= Yes No Maybe So Clara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= The year is 1933. The place? Sadler''We might give it our all s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and crash and burnOlivia are sisters, twins no less. But Identical on the outside but not, we might winlearn, on the inside. We might actually change And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things. And that maybe makes it still worth going forcan be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, donthat ''t you think?je ne sais quoi''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he canthat don't think of anything worsecome from the classroom. HoweverA stage presence, a charm, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public''joie de vivre''. Maya is The difference between a Pakistanihard-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separationworker, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassingstar. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=14711846680861544080

|author=Elliot ReedHeather Fawcett|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=This Emily Wilde is the story of a young boyan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, William Tyceand she has travelled extensively, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and his fatherresearched meticulously, to write her life's abandonmentwork, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. HoweverWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, it isn't told in the usual narrative wayshe is not so good with people. InsteadSo when she finds herself far, far North in the book is made up small village of glossary entriesHrafvsnik, written by Williamhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, as a way of describing certain eventsshe is not sure what she has done, situations nor how to redeem herself and emotionsput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. It runs alphabeticallyEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, starting with ABSENCEall charm and delight, then moving much to ALPHABETICAL ORDEREmily's frustration. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on earthwith the faerie folk around Hravsnik?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=19115454180356519120

|authorisbn= T R Hendrick1398515388|title= What if They KnewThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 2025. Underneath a lodge First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the Blue Mountain resort ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in Pennsylvaniaturn, is a secret facilitycaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Here The deaths were uncountable, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf the loss of the Benefactor, their anonymous funderlivelihoods was widespread. Already, the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates The fact that many pets were separated from one place to another. But, unbeknownst to their owners came far down the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type list of teleportation altogether priorities but - six months after the tsunami - travel through timeKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. And he He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's ready comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to test. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for open his technology car door and Tamon the dog jumped in mind|isbn=1734277211.

|author=H G Parry Christopher Bowden|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepMr Magenta

|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a sensible lawyer seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who exists in the "normal" world - always provided a safe harbour and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years little bit of protecting Charley, Rob wants indulgence to discharge his duties a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and leave Charley it seems to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin him an obligation to appear everywhere, find it soon becomes clear that someone all out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777B0B6Z9VJDW

|isbnauthor=1643785036Jennifer Mason|title=The Wondrous Apothecary|author=Mary E MartinPartitions of Unity

|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightHere at Bookbag Towers, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize-winning ''The Hay Wagon''we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and Rinaldounintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], the renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk when she investigated and cheese, if not sworn enemiesunravelled a series of disappearances. If youIn 've watched the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright was at the socially acceptable end Partitions of the artistic continuumUnity'', but with Rinaldo, it was all too obvious that there was but she sets her mind to solving a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisancemurder. As time has worn on, he's frequently been brought to the attention of the police. On this latest occasion, we see him charged with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiWill Carver|title=Permanent RecordThe Daves Next Door

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Pablo, a college drop-out, is working at a New York bodega. He's massively Five strangers come together in debt, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with moment as he serves is a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a relationshipLondon tube line. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone and As their fates overlap, the other who story is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the worldtold in backwards order, it's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just a love story though, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about leading up to the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartfateful moment.|isbn=03490034591914585186}}

|author=Daniel KrausJennifer Mason|title=Blood SugarPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=This is ''A struggling poetry zine, a difficult read. And not because of mom-and-pop mobile diner in the dark subject matter – that'll come later – but because of Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the way in which it2004 Olympics, a women's told. This might put track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a lot state-of readers off-the-art S&M dungeon, and to be honest it'd be hard to blame them. Kraus tells the story a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a distinctive voice unlike any other I've read; cheap oil painting, an erratic dialect with heavy and frequent slangerotic art dealer in Georgia.. The immediate effect is disorientating and distracting, and it takes some time to feel natural. It's ' This is just a struggle to acclimatise to Jody's voice, to get acquainted with his mannerisms, but sample of the story wouldn't be the same without it, cast of characters and somehow it workssettings in Preposterous. It shouldn'tAs you can see, but it doessome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=1789091934B09STS96HS

|isbn=B07W4MNBSGB0B2N7MVYM|title=Be Careful Who You MarryThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Lizzy MumfreyDaniel Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group 's the 10th of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing December 1962 when they were fiftywe first meet Dr Joseph Marr. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancientJust to put what happens in context, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry'the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The only eligible boys were world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the Young Farmers and missile crisis that's at the idea front of living in a farmhouse and having a couple his mind. He's been convicted of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothammurder. The place With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to start their search was obviously think otherwise than that the Young Farmersprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen' Halloween disco that weekends Bench, a relatively new prison. There was He's just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of the classMcArthur brothers.

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