It would be easy to mistake Richard Ayoade’s fourth book for a nonfiction work about Harauld Hughes, “one of the UK’s most garlanded playwrights”. After all, it is made to look that way.

Richard Ayoade’s arms are crossed ... Supposedly, the panel show “regular” is meant to be talking to me about his book, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, a somewhat breathless biography ...