Daniel Butler

Bel Crewe

URBAN DREAMS...Daniel Butler and Bel Crewe are increasingly dissatisfied with the direction of their lives. First they find each other; then they fantasise about the great escape. Fired by Daniel's dream of self-sufficiency and spurred on by Bel's pregnancy, they sell their London flats to buy a remote and dilapidated farmhouse high up in the Welsh hills. RURAL REALITIES...It is New Year's Eve, and Bel is six months pregnant. It has been raining for two months and the locals talk of a big freeze. They have no waterproof clothing and no form of heat. Bel is desperate, but Daniel is in paradise. As tensions inevitably show, surely things can only get better...?

One Couple's Pursuit of the Good Life

Urban Dreams, Rural Realities

The story of Daniel Butler's relationship with two barn owls which, unusually, nested at his ancient farmhouse in rural mid Wales. His close observation of the birds lead Butler to consider the condition of barn owls one the the UK's most popular birds. He argues they are a cypher for changes in rural Britain, in a fine piece of pastoral writing.

The Owl House

Leland Gregory

Alan Ray

100 crazy stories of America's dumbest criminals. WARNING: The crimes you are about to read are true. The names have been changed . . . to protect the ignorant. Here is the ultimate collection of the most incredibly stupid and painfully dumb attempts at crime ever brought together. The woman who invalidated her winning $5,000 lottery ticket by altering it to match the $20 prize number The accused vending-machine thief who paid his $400 bail entirely in quarters The streaking robber who thought clothes would make him more identifiable The convenience store thief who got away with just a hotdog, only to end up in the parking lot choking on the wiener

Wild and Weird Stories of Fumbling Felons, Clumsy Crooks, and Ridiculous Robbers

America's Dumbest Criminals

The single most shocking act of the First World War, the destruction of the Lusitania by the German submarine U-20 outraged the world. A century later, a shroud of mystery still clings to the afternoon of May 7, 1915, as somehow U-20 and the Lusitania came to be in the same spot off the south Irish coast at the same moment, and single torpedo sent the 44,000-ton liner to the bottom of the sea in less than twenty minutes, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. The Day the Lusitania Died tells the story of a great ship that made history from the day her keel was laid, but is remembered more for her loss than her life. The story of the destruction of the Lusitania unfolds on many levels. Not only is there the terrible human drama of those incredible eighteen minutes when the Lusitania sank to the bottom of the Celtic Sea, but also the tale of how U-20 came to be sitting astride the great liner's course that May afternoon. There is the story of how the submarine became Germany's decisive weapon in her naval war against Great Britain - but in a way the German government never imagined or desired. Present are admirals and sailors, diplomats and cabinet ministers, Presidents, kings, and kaisers, all of whom played a part in the convoluted dance which led to the sinking of the Lusitania. And not least of all, there is the enduring legacy of how those eighteen terrible minutes erased the distinction between civilian and soldier, and forever changed the face of warfare.

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