A question of taste - Nina Conti

BRITISH ventriloquist/comedienne Nina Conti is the daughter of actors Tom Conti and Kara Drummond Wilson. She brings her improvised show, In Your Face, to the Everyman in Cork next Monday.

Best recent book: I’m only one sentence in to Nabokov’s Speak Memory and I’m already devastated. But I’ve been in book mourning since finishing Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.

Best recent film: Klovn, its Danish but worth braving subtitles for some of the wrongest laughs I’ve had in years.