Comedian Mark Watson circles the warped world of The Third Policeman - a novel where people turn into bikes and police talk non-sequiturs about quantum physics. Show more
Comedian Josie Long is haunted by feelings of the outsider - the ghosts of the past, Paris (and Pernod) - as she unlocks the secrets of Jean Rhys’s novel Good Morning, Midnight. Show more
Comedian Daliso Chaponda unravels the myriad personas of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night. If we're always playing a version of ourselves, how do we know who we truly are? Show more
Comedian Natasha Hodgson gets entangled in the slippery world of Ishiguro's The Unconsoled, a novel about memory, performance and bafflement. So what's she meant to be doing again? Show more
Athena Kugblenu searches for Rosemary Tonks, a poet and writer who 'vanished like the Cheshire Cat', shortly after the height of her fame in the late 1960s. Show more
Writer, comedian and crumpled surrealist John-Luke Roberts unravels the labyrinthine world of Infinite Jest - and that of its brilliant, troubled author David Foster Wallace. Show more
Hirsute comedian and crumpled polymath Rob Auton shuffles through BS Johnson's 1969 novel The Unfortunates, a book published in a box with 27 sections to be read in a random order. Show more
Comedian Desiree Burch unravels Octavia Butler's visionary 1993 novel Parable of the Sower, an eerily-prescient dystopian vision of society torn apart by climate change and greed. Show more
'Am I fact or am I fiction?' Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean melts into the glorious unreality of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. Who is she when the performance ends? Show more