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Faber nabs The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade
Faber has snapped up Richard Ayoade’s The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, a "fictional quest to rescue" the story of the mid-century playwright Harauld Hughes.
Editorial director Walter Donohue acquired world all-language rights plus audio rights from Jo Unwin at JULA, and the book is scheduled for publication on 3rd October 2024.
The audiobook is read by Ayoade and stars Noel Fielding, Lydia Fox, Sally Hawkins, Stephen Merchant, David Mitchell and Chris Morris, with music by Alex Turner.
Faber will also reissue a three-volume collection of Hughes’ writing, comprising Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry (Faber), The Models Trilogy (Faber) and Four Films (Faber).
"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 electrified [...] Ayoade embarked on a documentary, ’The Unfinished Harauld Hughes’, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes’ final film ’O Bedlam! O Bedlam!’, taking us deep inside the most furious British writer since the Boer War. This is the story of the story of that quest."
Donohue said: "Richard Ayoade conjures spells from the depths of his imagination, which astound with their originality. Readers should brace themselves."
