Comedian and actor Omid Djalili's choice is A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe, a novel about compassion set against the backdrop of the Aberfan disaster. Nikita Lalwani chooses a quirky book of short stories by Charles Yu called Third Class Superhero - the message of which seems to be it's okay to be mediocre. Presenter Harriett Gilbert's choice is Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter, which lays bare the complexities of motherhood and the mixed feelings it evokes
