It would be easy to mistake Richard Ayoade’s fourth book for a nonfiction ... After his birth in 1931, it states, “his mother sent him to London to fend for himself”. On the back cover ...

The Cambridge-educated son of a Nigerian father and Swedish mother, Richard Ayoade first came to prominence starring in and co-writing the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe show Garth Merenghi's Fright Knight ...