The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

'So funny - Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.' STEPHEN MERCHANT 'The kind of honest, life-enhancing hilarity that will have you guffawing on public transport.' DAILY MAIL 'Ayoade's quietly intelligent, low-key wit, funnelled through his hangdog narrator, makes this a journey worth taking.' GUARDIAN 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 electrified. Terse, aggressive, and elliptical, what was true of Ayoade was also true of Hughes's writing, which encompassed stage, screen, and some of the shortest poems ever published. Ayoade embarked on a documentary, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes's final film, taking us deep inside the most furious British writer since the Boer War. This is the story of that quest.