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presented by Richard Ayoade

Harauld Hughes

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English
Faber & Faber
03 October 2024
Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber.

This volume of Harauld Hughes's last four screenplays includes a preface and afterword by the author.

THE TERRIBLE WITCH A feisty undergraduate uncovers fresh witchy business in Ipswich.

THE AWFUL WOMAN FROM SPACE Two top feminist scientists find their sense of sisterhood challenged by the arrival of an intergalactic uber-femme.

THE DEADLY GUST This ill wind blows no one any good in one of Hughes's most elliptical works for the screen.

THE GLOWING WRONG When two research scientists are asked to move their lab facility into a cursed church, they awake an ancient evil at the heart of the British government.
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Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm, 
ISBN:   9780571393060
ISBN 10:   0571393063
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Harauld Hughes was born in Cardiff in 1931. In 1932, his mother sent him to London to fend for himself. He remained there until the outbreak of the Second World War, when he was evacuated to Suffolk, despite his offers to enlist. Hughes returned to London in 1945 and lived in the Elephant and Castle. His experiences as a teenage landlord informed much of his later work. He wrote his first play, Platform, in 1960, but it was his fourth play, Roost, written, unusually, before his third play, Roast, which made his reputation. He remains one of the UK's most garlanded playwrights. He was awarded the Euripides Prize for short-form drama and the Goethe Garter, and was one of the first writers-in-residence at Costa Coffee, albeit in an unofficial capacity. He was married to the theologian and chef Lady Virginia Lovilocke. He died in 2006.

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