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'If you like black humour you will like Clay's eclectic compilation.' The Times 'It's a fun account of the more lurid side of Victorian life that, if you'll forgive me for mentioning Christmas this early, would make a good stocking filler.' Liverpool Echo '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.' Daily Mail (picked as 'Must Read') An interesting collection of newspaper articles from the Victorian era. Very informative and interesting. Natalie Knight (Educator) This book just proves the old adage that some things never change. This was a delightful book with Victorian sensational stories that could appear in our National Enquirer today! Lesa Einwich (Librarian) A fun little collection of odd, bizarre, amusing and just plain messed up things that happened during Victorian days. It convinced me that the Victorian age was a wild ride from start to finish and I, for one, would not have lived long. Ea Bech (Reviewer)

'If you like black humour you will like Clay's eclectic compilation.' The Times 'It's a fun account of the more lurid side of Victorian life that, if you'll forgive me for mentioning Christmas this early, would make a good stocking filler.' Liverpool Echo An interesting collection of newspaper articles from the Victorian era. Very informative and interesting. Natalie Knight (Educator)

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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, he quietly changed tack. In his early 20s he set out on a short but satisfying career as a layabout, which segued neatly into a stint in an also-ran indie band. No, you haven't heard of them. They released two albums - the second selling even worse than the first - before splitting up, to general indifference. Jeremy has been a journalist since the mid-1990s. As a reporter on a local newspaper, he interviewed people with gripes about bins or buses and encouraged them to say they were either livid or devastated, sometimes both. He also covered global news stories. He reported on the handover of Hong Kong, for instance, albeit from a suburban front garden in the Midlands, where a Union flag was being solemnly lowered by a man who had once lived in the Far East. Jeremy has been a features writer and a TV critic and is the author of two books: Leicester Til We Die, the story of the emotionally-charged final season at Filbert Street, and Blokes and Balls (New Holland). He is a dad-of-two, a dog-owner, a drummer and a devotee of alliteration, which he wishes began with a d. He lives in Leicester but doesn't know Kasabian or Sue Townsend, although he did once shake hands with the singer from Showaddywaddy.

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