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What are the books that changed your life, your attitude to living and view of the world?

What are the books that changed your life, your attitude to living, your view of the world? Picking five books that are significant to them, guests give us a fascinating insight

My Life in Five Books: Series 3

My Life in Five Books: Series 3: Episode 5: Janice Galloway

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Episode 5: Janice Galloway

Series 3

Janice Galloway

BBC Radio 4 Extra - My Life in Five Books, Series 3, Janice Galloway

Author Janice Galloway tells Stuart Cosgrove about her five most significant books.

Janice Galloway tells Stuart Cosgrove about her life growing up in Ayrshire and she picks and discusses five favourite books that have made a real impact on her.

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Picking 5 books that are significant to them our guests give us a fascinating insight into their lives through the books on their bookshelves.

Janice Galloway grew up in Saltcoats in Ayrshire and worked for ten years as a teacher before her first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, was published in 1990

In 2002 she published her novel Clara about the life of the pianist Clara Schumann which won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award that year. 

Her memoir This is Not About Me came out in 2008 and was followed by a second book of memoir, All Made Up, three years later.

Janice talks to Stuart Cosgrove about her childhood in Ayrshire, her relationship with her mother and big sister and her love of music. 

Janice picks and discusses with Stuart these five books:

Favourite childhood book - Edward Lear's Complete Nonsense Verse.

A Life changing book - The Greek Myths as represented in the Children's Encyclopaedia 

Non-fiction book: John W. Schaum Piano Course: A - The Red Book 

The book you'd lend to someone else - Marguerite Duras - The Lover 

Current book on the bedside table - - Professor Roy Porter - Flesh in the Age of Reason.

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What are the books that changed your life, your attitude to living, your view of the world? Picking five books that are significant to them, our guests give us a fascinating insight into their lives.

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