Violinist Nigel Kennedy takes time out from his UK concert tour to talk to actress Clare Perkins and Harriett Gilbert about one of his favourite books - Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mashima, the coming-of-age story of a young boy in post-war Japan. Clare chooses Bel Canto by Ann Patchett - a story she finds hopeful for humanity despite being about a hostage situation - and Harriett selects Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis, a 1915 novel about a young salesmen who awakes one morning to find he has changed into a monstrous insect
