<p>Actor Nina Sosanya and prize winning poet and writer Joelle Taylor talk favourite books with Harriett.</p><p>Nina chooses Sally Jones and the False Rose by Jakob Wegelius, a children's novel with a mute gorilla engineer as its protagonist. The book appeals to Nina's love of engineering, and the city of Glasgow!</p><p>Joelle nominates Booker Prize winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, about a man killed in the Sri Lankan civil war, seeking answers in the afterlife.</p><p>Harriett's choice is Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz, a novel set in the German countryside at the tail end of summer, featuring two women with mysterious back stories.</p><p>Two of the choices are novels in translation, which prompts a chat about whether translated books are becoming more common</p><p>Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Sally Heaven Follow us on instagram: agoodreadbbc</p>