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How do we give a voice to those who so often remain unheard? Will You Read This, Please is a frank and impactful collection of twelve stories as told to our best British writers, based on the lived experience of people who have faced mental illness in the UK. Edited by Joanna Cannon, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie and A Tidy Ending, the stories told here are powerful, resonant and heart-breaking. This is a ground-breaking and unforgettable collection, shining a light on the stigma and isolation of living with mental illness.

The iconic Saint Paul - in his lifetime a scholar, prosecutor for the high court of the Jews, accomplice in murder, adventurer, traveler, orator, writer, advocate, and organizer of a new faith - was in fact a Jewish-Hellenistic citizen of the Roman Empire, a man who by the force of his intellect and indomitable will changed the course of history. Eventually he became the leader of the movement that delivered the social and moral authority of Christianity to a pagan world.

A whole quadrant of Baton Rouge has been bought up by a rich man with a penchant for gambling and women, creating a haven for seedy saloons, gambling houses, and brothels. Early one morning, in a popular brothel, one of the women who works there turns up dead. She seems too young and beautiful to be a part of this life.

Lawmaker August Flynn receives a tip-off that a Savannah gold mine is being sabotaged and many young men's lives are being needlessly lost. But the town is so wrapped up in lies, deceit, and greed that it's difficult for Flynn to know who's telling the truth.

From the Chronicles of Lawmaker August Flynn...Deadman Walking. Rumors that August Flynn has died circulate round Baton Rouge and Outlaw Henry Ike, an old adversary from Flynn's past, undertakes a violent robbery of a stagecoach. It's up to Flynn to track down the outlaw and settle the score once and for all.

When August Flynn decides to take a vacation in Dallas he's quickly drawn in to help solve the murder of a man shot playing cards in the back room of a saloon. It's likely that one of the other three men in the room is responsible, but which one?

Lawmaker August Flynn becomes personally involved in a bank robbery. But everything is not what it appears. When the vault is opened, it seems that someone else has beaten them to it, despite the vault being locked, and with no signs of entry.

Lawmaker August Flynn receives a tip-off that a Savannah gold mine is being sabotaged and many young men's lives are being needlessly lost. But the town is so wrapped up in lies, deceit and greed that it's difficult for Flynn to know who's telling the truth.