Irish actress Niamh Cusack recommends Lila by Marilynne Robinson, part of a group of novels about the relationship between a young woman who has grown up drifting around the midwest of America and the elderly Reverend John Ames. Crime writer Elly Griffiths' choice is Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard, a semi-comic family drama with something more sinister, she deems it `domestic noir". Host Harriett Gilbert chooses travel writer Norman Lewis' account of wartime Naples and the allied liberation of Southern Italy, Naples '44