Authors

Clay Lane

in The Copy Book

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The Bishop’s Gambit

The mayor and bishop of Zakynthos went to extraordinary lengths to protect the most vulnerable people of their island.

344

The Falkland Islands

A proudly British group of islands far off in the South Atlantic.

345

The Ashes of English Cricket

How the cricketing rivalry between England and Australia got its name.

346

Penicillin

An improbable chain of coincidences led to one of the great medical revolutions just when it was most needed.

347

The Peninsular War

Napoleon’s six-year-long campaign (1808-1814) to bring Spain and Portugal into his united Europe was frustrated by Arthur Wellesley.

348

The Bald Lover

A man’s mid-life crisis leaves him a little ... exposed.