Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptation, comic book and bath towel. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published thirty years ago......on 12 October 1979 and its phenomenal success sent the book straight to number one in the UK bestseller list. In 1984 Douglas Adams became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan. His series has sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia and was also a bestseller in German and many other languages. The feature film starring Martin Freeman and Zooey Deschanel with Stephen Fry as the Guide was released in 2005 using much of Douglas’s original script and ideas. Douglas lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, North London, and briefly in California, where he died in 2001.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Even 30 years on this is still a fresh and funny series of stories, whether you read them or listen to the original BBC radio shows. The anarchic, or ‘random’ to use modern parlance, plot, place settings and characters makes... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams The 2nd installment of this brilliant Sci fi comedy continues. Who really runs the universe? What happens when the universe stops? And why Hairdressers and Advertising Account Execs bugger up the most sophisticated computer in all of creation! Sublime writing... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Life, the Universe and Everything Douglas Adams 3rd in the series and the first one that was written as a book as opposed to being adapted from the radio scripts. Zaphod, Trillian, Ford, Arthur and the hilariously named Slartibartfast reunite, at Lords Cricket ground (don’t ask) to... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Douglas Adams 4th in the series and really not one you can jump into – so stop trying to save time and start at the beginning to have any hope of understanding what is going on! The Earth was gone –... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams 5th and final, the title refers very neatly to the ‘expanded entry’ Ford Prefect got into the Hitchikers Guide after being stranded on Earth for 15 years and if you didn’t know that click here to go back to... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Dirk Gently Omnibus Douglas Adams Forget the clumsy recent TV adaptation and go back to the original books. Dirk is, unlike Sherlock Holmes, a detective who never eliminates the impossible. Cue hilarious mishaps and a meandering way to get to the truth or the culprit. Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2001 Lovereading Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : Primary Phase Douglas Adams To hear a sample from this audiobook click here. The 40 Best Audio books comment: On the day that Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is rescued by his friend... Format: Cd-audio - Released: 02/04/2001 Lovereading Price: £12.25 - Saving £4.09 (25%)

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Secondary Phase Douglas Adams To hear a sample from this audiobook click here. Read by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan, Stephen Moore Unabridged Length: 3 hours and 50 min. Format: CD-Audio - Released: 02/04/2001 Lovereading Price: £12.25 - Saving £4.09 (25%)