Books by Richard Ayoade
“The premise is that Richard Ayoade, the narrator, a version of the real Ayoade, is trying to write the biography of a late 20th-century writer, Harauld Hughes, who is clearly a cross between Ted Hughes and Harold Pinter, that type of literary icon. Someone has told the narrator, Richard Ayoade, that they look similar, so he starts trying to put together this biography. It’s a pitch-perfect parody of a particular time in English letters, and of the way that a certain type of man was lionised. He has such a good, clever line of spoofing that type of writing, the poetry and the incomprehensible plays of the second half of the 20th century.” Read more...
Stephanie Merritt, Journalist
Interviews where books by Richard Ayoade were recommended
The Funniest Books of 2025, recommended by Stephanie Merritt
Every year, the judges of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction draw up a shortlist of books that made them laugh out loud. We asked the novelist Stephanie Merritt, one of the 2025 judges, to talk us through the eight books in the running for the title of the funniest book of the year.
