Luck

`A joy' Philippe Sands

`Glorious' David Spiegelhalter

A fascinating, enchanting and personal look at the meaning of luck, and the way in which it has shaped our shared history and continues to inflect our day to day lives.

What does it mean to be lucky? How might we mitigate the effects of bad luck and maximise those of good? Is there actually such a thing as `luck'-some force that intervenes between desire and its consummation, that impedes or hastens it?

To answer these questions, David Flusf...