In this episode of 'The Books That Made Me', Ben Keene (Co-founder of Rebel Book Club) talks to Sophie Morgan about 3 nonfiction books that have had a massive impact on her to date. Sophie describes one book as a catalyst for a huge adventure and another that has such deep resonance with her, 'it feels like coming home'.
Sophie also shares with us her activism around Rights on Flights + why she feels bookshops should be curating disabled writers within their own section in bookstores. Watch this space for a Rebel Book Club backed campaign on that one...
Enjoy!
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Sophie Morgan is one of the first female TV presenters in the world with a physical disability. Best known for presenting the Paralympics, Sophie also reports on hard-hitting documentaries, live-event broadcasting and most recently, fronting her prime-time travel series whilst appearing as a regular panelist on a popular daytime talk show. She is one of the first female wheelchair users to become a T.V. personality in the U.K. and the world.
Sophie is co-founder of Rights on Flights, a campaign & member organisation which provides educational resources for the airline industry and empowers disabled travellers. Global Ambassador for Can-Am, Airbnb and PADI, Sophie is an avid traveler and writes about inclusive travel in her brand-new monthly column for Condé Nast Traveler.
Her first book, a bestselling memoir, “Driving Forwards”, was published in 2023 by Little Brown.
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Sophie's choices were:
1. Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World by Elspeth Beard (Michael O'Mara | 2017)
2. Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert (Bloomsbury Publishing | 2015)
3. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig (HarperOne | 2020)
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