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Sylvia Plath died 1963. An American poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author. Best known for her poetry, and her death which mirrored an attempted suicide in The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel. Read books by Sylvia Plath
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series Back to top
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
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
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
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
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
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams, Eoin Colfer
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: 04/09/2009
The Rough Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Marcus O'Dair
A must have for all fans of the Hitchhikers series and also the perfect book for those who know nothing about them and would like to know (well, and actually reading the books helps with that) but this is a... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2009
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Audiobooks Back to top
And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three Eoin Colfer
An Audio version of this long awaited sequel. And Another Thing, the 6th book in the Hitchhiker’s trilogy,
or rather ‘double trilogy’ as it has now become, has been written by
the brilliantly funny Eoin Colfer, international number-one bestselling
author of the Artemis... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 11/10/2009
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
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
On the 12th October 1979 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, was first published and to celebrate this publishing phenomenon Pan Macmillan has repackaged all of Douglas Adams’s books, in the series, as a celebration of this 30th anniversary. Find opening extracts from all the titles on our celebratory page.
We've also got some great Hitchhiker's goodies to give away to one lucky reader! Just click on one of the books for details of how to enter the prize draw.
And as if that weren’t enough on the 12th October 2009, thirty years on from publication of the first Hitchhikers novel, a new instalment of the planet-hopping, comic genius series will be published. Author, Eoin Colfer has been specially commissioned to write the next novel, continuing the saga of Arthur Dent and his companions. And Another Thing looks set to get a whole new generation loving these books so look out on the 12th October when you will be able to read an opening extract from the new, enthralling episode, here on Lovereading.
Also, if you are a bit rusty on what happened in the books Rough Guides are bringing out a handy Rough Guide to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in early October so have a look and brush up on your Hitchhiking knowledge!
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