Neil Oliver, the TV archeologist from Coast, A History of Scotland and Rise of the Clans chooses a nature book The Glorious Life of the Oak by John Lewis-Stempel. Writer Neil Forsyth's choice of book is Stuart A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters, the biography of a homeless drug addicted man from Cambridge. Presenter Harriett Gilbert chooses Indemnity Only, a female PI-led crime fiction story set in Chicago