Authors

Clay Lane

in The Copy Book

There are 547 posts in The Copy Book credited to Clay Lane. (In the case of some authors, the list may include translations and paraphrases.)

1

The Story of Miss

A half-starved cat is recruited by the Allies in the fight against Hitler.

2

Odysseus Comes Home

Now that King Odysseus has failed to return from the Siege of Troy, the earls of Ithaca are eager to marry his lovely widow.

3

Trouble at Belsize Gardens

In 1720, Welsh promoter William Howell opened a pleasure garden at Belsize House, but the pleasures drew the magistrates’ frowns.

4

The Fisherman’s Net

A little fable from ancient Greece about those political activists who make a living from stirring up controversy.

5

Timur in Russia

Timur, Muslim lord of Samarkand, threw his weight behind the Golden Horde’s subjugation of Christian Russia, with unexpected results.

6

The Heron and the Crab

An ageing Heron finds himself a little too stiff to fish for himself, so he thinks of a way to get the fish to do it for him.