The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
richard ayoade's hilarious fictional quest to rescue a mythical mid-century playwright from obscurity
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2025
Summary
The Unfinished Harauld Hughes: A Quest for Obscurity
Richard Ayoade’s fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity.
The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance to the author’s photo, he opened the volume and was electrif…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571339174 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571339174 |
| Author: | Richard Ayoade |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 197mm x 129mm |
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‘So funny - Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.’ STEPHEN MERCHANT‘Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.’ TIM KEY ‘Absolutely miraculous.’ JESSE EISENBERG ‘A brain-swirlingly funny quest.’ ROBERT POPPER
About The Author
Richard Ayoade
RICHARD AYOADE is a writer and director. In addition to directing and co-writing Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, he has adapted and directed Joe Dunthorne’s novel Submarine for the screen and is the co-writer (with Avi Korine) and director of the film The Double. As an actor he is best known for his roles as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and Maurice Moss in the Emmy Award-winning The IT Crowd, for which he was awarded a BAFTA for Best Performance in a Comedy.
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