A Good Read: Liam Williams and Kate Stables

Comedian and actor Liam Williams chooses Bartleby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville's dark tale about the monotony of office work and people who quietly buck the system. The musician Kate Stables - aka This Is the Kit - is a self-confessed huge fan of Ursula K Le Guin, and she chooses The Word for World Is Forest, a book that draws heavily on the Vietnam War to comment on the nature of humanity. Harriett Gilbert's pick is Requiem by Antonio Tabucchi, a tale of unexpected encounters on the streets of Lisbon, as the narrator goes in search of a lost love