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Ranging from Newton's apple to the underwired bra that deflected a bullet, this title features upbeat stories of real-life serendipity. What connects the discovery of America, the creation of Coca Cola and the art book bought for GBP50 that turned out to contain original Picassos? That's right: sheer blind luck. No matter how meticulously things are planned, time after time the most important bits of life are the product of simple, random chance. In wonderfully witty style, Daniel M. Smith gives us the stories of inventors, Nobel Prize winners, scientists, actresses, escapees, engineers, kings, architects, pop stars, criminals, supermodels, tennis champions, opera singers and many more who have benefited from happy serendipity. From the Japanese trader who made fortune after a share price typo to the German novelist who lost his manuscript on a train, and ended up buying some fish wrapped in his own pages at the station, "The Lucky Bugger's Casebook" is a celebration of the type of unexpected good fortune we all dream of - just ask Sir Paul McCartney, who awoke one morning with the tune to 'Yesterday' having arrived in his head overnight.
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Daniel Smith worked in publishing as a researcher, writer and editor of non-fiction (including The Statesman's Yearbook - a geo-political guide to the word - The Artist's Yearbook and The Screenwriters Handbook) and in 2003 lived and worked in Calcutta, India. He is the author of World in Your Pocket, a factbook about the countries and cultures of the world, and the forthcoming Sherlock Holmes: An Elementary Guide. He lives in east London with his partner, Rosie, and an assortment of fish.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The Lucky Bugger's Casebook is a fascinating collection of the true stories of the often outrageous good fortune that led people to a startling, wonderful (and sometimes truly bizarre) range of innovations and leaps forward that improve and enhance the lives and bank balances of many of us today, yet which we perhaps take for granted.
Daniel Smith is entertaining, funny and engaging in this book, in which he reminds us that in life we often find precisely what we didn't know we were looking for, when we search with an open mind in entirely the wrong place.
You will read this book in one sitting, and continually refer back to it when quoting stories to friends and family. A perfect addition to any stocking at this, or any other, time of year. I'm looking forward to a second volume!
Daniel Smith is entertaining, funny and engaging in this book, in which he reminds us that in life we often find precisely what we didn't know we were looking for, when we search with an open mind in entirely the wrong place.
You will read this book in one sitting, and continually refer back to it when quoting stories to friends and family. A perfect addition to any stocking at this, or any other, time of year. I'm looking forward to a second volume!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Thoroughly enjoyable light reading. I bought it for that difficult-to-buy-for uncle but opened it for a quick flick through when it arrived and got hooked. It really is very entertaining. I logged on to order another copy...
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I wanted to find the ideal present for a close friend and I when heard this advertised on the radio I bought a copy. I was browsing through and it kept me so captivated that I ended reading the whole wonderful book.
I can simply not praise it enough. Needless to say copies are on their way to my brother in law, father and a couple extra friends. Beryl my housekeeper who hasn't been so lucky this year may be finding one in her stocking
I real treasure. Well written and a totally charming treat.
I recommend you to go buy or get gifted one soon.
G
I can simply not praise it enough. Needless to say copies are on their way to my brother in law, father and a couple extra friends. Beryl my housekeeper who hasn't been so lucky this year may be finding one in her stocking
I real treasure. Well written and a totally charming treat.
I recommend you to go buy or get gifted one soon.
G
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