

Donated by Cambridge Literary Festival - Spring Festival 2025
Richard Ayoade | The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
Thu 24 Apr 2025 | 7:30pm – 8:30pm
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. 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.