The Unfinished Harauld Hughes (Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction)

'So funny -- Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.' - Stephen Merchant
'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.' - Tim Key
'Absolutely miraculous.' - Jesse Eisenberg
'A brain-swirlingly funny quest.' - Robert Popper

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 firs...