Solving conflict with experimental theatre...

Peep Show and Fresh Meat co-creator Jesse Armstrong has written his first novel.

Love, Sex And Other Foreign Policy Goals is about a group of naive but well-intentioned young people who travel in a Transit van to war-torn Yugloslavia in 1994, hoping to end the conflict through the power of experimental theatre.

Although the central character has a slightly less altruistic reason for going, as he's trying to sleep with the girl he fancies.

Armstrong told Chortle: 'It's long and lonely writing a novel compared to collaborating with Sam [Bain] on Peep Show or my fellow Thick of It writers, or the whole Fresh Meat team. 

'Writing a sitcom compared to writing a novel is a bit like a big group holiday compared to a solitary march to the South Pole. On the one hand, the solo march is in some ways easier - you're in control, there are fewer people around with competing ideas. On the other hand, during the solo march to the Antarctic, it is common to be afflicted with a persistent feeling that you are a vainglorious arsehole who is about to die.'

The novel is Armstrong's first foray into literature, following a string of TV and film credits including Bad Sugar, Veep, Babylon, Four Lions and the Entire History of You for Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror.

Love, Sex And Other Foreign Policy Goals will be published by Jonathan Cape on April 2, priced £12.99 – but click here to preorder from Foyles at £9.87.

Peep Show shoots its final series this year.

Published: 13 Jan 2015