Richard Ayoade's comic novel, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, tracks the making of a documentary about a forgotten, Pinteresque playwright who just so happens to bear an extraordinary resemblance to Ayoade himself. It is just one piece of an elaborate, multi-faceted endeavour which also includes three volumes of Hughes's complete works. In trying to define the… Continue reading The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
Category: comic novels
Reasons to be Cheerful
Nina Stibbe’s novel, Reasons To Be Cheerful, the third volume in a series of semi-autobiographical novels, hasn’t been short of recognition, winning the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2019, and the Comedy Women in Print Prize in 2020. As is so often the case with comic novels, though, critical suspicion lingers – with some critics… Continue reading Reasons to be Cheerful
Humour in the Arts 