Jeremy Clay picked as Daily Mail 'Must Read'

The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton & Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press by Jeremy Clay has been selected as a ‘Must Read’ by the Daily Mail.

‘There are more than 200 wacky real-life stories reproduced here, including a bearded lady who brawled with a snake charmer, a boy who hatched a crocodile in a hen’s nest and a man whose paralysis was cured by lightning. Makes today’s tabloids seem positively tame.’

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Jeremy Clay

Jeremy Clay

At first, Jeremy Clay wanted to be a soldier. A war hero. The kind of steel-jawed Tommy from the comic books, who single-handedly storms a machine gun post to anguished cries of aieeeeeeeee from the enemy.   But after losing a primary school fight to a younger kid who grew up to be a poet, h...More about Jeremy Clay