A murderous thief, a nonsensical theoretical scientist, mind-bending inventions, an army of one-legged men, an awful lot of bicycles, and at the centre of it all, a trio of village policemen!

The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of my favourite books. It starts off seemingly quite straightforwardly, with a theft and a murder, but then it gets surreal! Chapter after chapter contains one mind-blowing idea after another. What sort of place is this? What exactly is going on? Is it about a bicycle? And who IS the third Policeman? It's a very peculiar pancake, to be sure. I won't give anything away, I just recommend that you give it a try and delight in this brilliant work of insane genius! (One thing; it deserves much better cover artwork than the Harper Perennial edition).