BOOKS CHANGE LIVES

Came across the April issue of North & South magazine at my local cafe the other day. Somehow I had missed this issue. In it was an interesting piece in the books section (this section ran to seven pages) where the editor asked six of their celebrity contributors to name the book that has had a lasting impact on them, or even changed their life.

Here they are with their book:

Tessa Duder, writer.


The Feminine Mystique by Betty Frieden. She also mentioned Ann Finkbeiner's After the Death of a Child, and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance.




Graeme Dingle, writer, adventurer.


Lional Terray's 1963 autobiography Conquistadors of the Useless


Dame Susan Devoy, former world squash champion


Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell




Roger Hall, Playwright

"It wasn't so much a particular book as a particualr author - Nevil Shute.
The Chequerboard.






Lynley Dodd, children's book author and illustrator

All of Jane Austen's books  but Pride & Prejudice was the one I read first, when I was 13.



Barbara Kendall, Olympic gold medallist


Personality Plus by Florence Littauer