The Book That Changed My Life

Carol Wyer won The People's Book Prize Award for non-fiction 2015 and writes regularly for the Huffington Post. Her new book, Life Swap, is released on 22nd April. I have always been an avid reader. Evenings you would find my whole family sitting in the lounge, each with a book. Ill health that kept me bed bound for many months allowed me to devour most of the books … [Read more...] about The Book That Changed My Life: Carol Wyer Picks Candide by Voltaire

The book that changed my life is The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier. My grandmother gave it to me to read when I was about 12 years old. I’d always been fascinated by history right from being a small child, and I can still remember the feeling I had when I read this book of being transported back in time, taken to the heart of history, to a real world that had been … [Read more...] about The Book That Changed My Life: Nicola Cornick Picks The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier

  It wasn’t actually a book that changed my life – it was a play. Now, over the years, I have read moment-altering, life-enhancing books: Jojo Moyes' Me Before You and The Girl You Left Behind, Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book, David Nicholls' One Day, and Chaim Potok's The Chosen are a few that come to mind. But no one touches me like Oscar … [Read more...] about The Book That Changed My Life by Lindsay Jill Roth

When I was seventeen, I started reading the mysteries of Josephine Tey. I picked up The Daughter of Time, expecting another detective story. When I realised it was about the murder of the Princes in the Tower, I was puzzled. I was doing A-Level History. I knew the facts. Everyone did. What else was there to discover? But I read on. Two hours later, I finished the book, and … [Read more...] about The Book That Changed My Life: Michelle Birkby picks The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

I have two books that changed my life. I’m greedy like that but they both worked together in a strange and unplanned way, as these things often happen, in helping change the course of my life. The first is Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns, I read this thanks to a friend’s recommendation and it was so different to any of the usual books I would normally burrow my head in … [Read more...] about The Book That Changed My Life: Katy Colins Picks Books by Khaled Hosseini and Lindsey Kelk