Giles Long MBE and 3-time Paralympic Gold-Medal winner

                                                                 Giles Long MBE

Giles Long MBE and three-times Paralympic Gold Medal winner to talk about his book 'Changing to Win'.
For more information, visit www.gileslong.com

To reach the pinnacle of international success Giles Long had to overcome cancer. For twelve years
he has represented Great Britain at the highest level in the world of swimming, both as a Butterfly
and Individual Medley swimmer and as a relay team member. He won twenty major Championship medals including Paralympic, European, and World Championship Gold medals. His greatest achievement was winning the Paralympic 100 metre Butterfly Gold medal, in October 2000, in a World Record time.

Books

Changing to Win by Giles Long
Changing to Win is the keynote speech delivered by Giles. It is a template for motivating and
inspiring people at all levels within business organisations. By developing strong links with the
company Giles is able to stress, or give prominence, to key areas within the work place ensuring
that the message he delivers, runs in tandem with that which the client is aiming to deliver. His
story is one of highs and lows, with laughter along the way.

Jaws by Peter Benchley
Amity is a quiet town near New York. One night a young woman goes for a swim in the sea. She doesn't
come back. The next morning the police find her dead body on the beach ...Brody is a good policeman
and he is sure there is a shark near Amity. He tries to close the beaches but no one will listen to
him.

The Beach by Alex Garland
Late at night in a seedy hotel, Richard is drawn into a strange conversation with a fellow guest.
Through a narrow strip of mosquito netting he hears for the first time of a secret beach, an island
Garden of Eden, hidden somewhere in the scattered islands of a Thai marine park. The next morning,
Richard finds a map pinned to his door, and the man who put it there has slashed his wrists. The
challenge is irresistible, and Richard sets off on a perilous journey in search of Shangri-La.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school
with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's
natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at
Thornfield Hall. However, when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery
of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay with him and live with the
consequences, or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of
intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre (1847) dazzled and shocked readers with its passionate
depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.

Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger
The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of
his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies'
themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who
scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it's a
novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in
conventional terms, there is hardly any plot at all). Salinger's style creates an effect of
conversation, it is as though Holden is speaking to you personally, as though you too have seen
through the pretences of the American Dream and are growing up unable to see the point of living in,
or contributing to, the society around you. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood, it
deals with society, love, loss, and expectations without ever falling into the clutch of a cliche.

Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos
are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'.
 In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across
time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all things literary - and a woman called Thursday Next.
In this utterly original and wonderfully funny first novel, Fforde has created a fiesty,
loveable heroine and a plot of such richness and ingenuity that it will take your breath away.

Coming up next week- Author Rachel Lichtenstein to talk about 'On Brick Lane'.