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Douglas Adams
Chris Riddell’s fabulously illustrated 42nd Anniversary gift edition of Douglas Adams’s classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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A special 42nd anniversary edition of Douglas Adams’s mega-selling cult classic, with additional material from the Adams archives.
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The mega-cult-blockbuster-bestseller joins the SF Masterworks list.
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Douglas Adams’ mega-selling cult classic: now in one handy boxset that contains the complete The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in five parts, charting the whole of Arthur Dent’s…
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Suitable for any would-be galactic traveller, and for all Douglas Adams fans, this title includes all five parts of the trilogy, along with a wealth of extra material.
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Douglas Adams & Chris Riddell (illus.)
The sequel to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, beautifully illustrated throughout by Costa award-winner Chris Riddell.
Yvette Keller
Forty-two London places written about, associated with, or venerated by Douglas Adams.
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Over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems…Welcome to the incredible archive of Douglas Adams.
The classic comic science fiction masterpiece with a new introduction by Mitch Benn.
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The comic science fiction classic with a new introduction by John Lloyd.
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A special 42nd anniversary edition of Douglas Adams’ mega-selling cult classic: now in one handy paperback volume!
Funnier than Psycho … more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge … shorter than War and Peace … the second Dirk Gently novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
This distinctive and inimitable last collection is the ultimate must-have title for Douglas Adams fans.
Douglas Adams’ ‘thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic’ and beloved cult classic.
Join time-traveling earthling Arthur Dent; sexy space cadet Trillian; mad alien Ford Prefect; the unflappable Slartibartfast; and two-headed, three-armed, ex-head Honcho of the Universe Zaphod Beeblebrox in this third work…
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Terry Jones
Starship Titanic is a laugh-out-loud sci-fi adventure written by Terry Jones (Monty Python), based on the game Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams, bestselling author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the…
Kurt Vonnegut
Classic Science fiction from one of the world's most famous authors, soon to be a Tv show from Dan Harmon (Rick & Morty)
Davina Tijani
A fun, fresh and fast-paced series based on African mythology, YOMI is an adventure full of heart and humour.
While on a trip to Senegal, Yomi and Kay are approached by a Yumboe - a fairy-like creature - who asks for their help. Will they be able to protect…
Terry Jones,Terry Jones
As civilization prepares to launch the most advanced starship ever built, the Architect of the project discovers that his partners, the Manager and the Accountant, faced with mounting financial crises…
Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is…
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Douglas E. Stevens
Stevens tells the untold story of the search for a moral foundation for capitalism through its leading characters. His historical account reveals the rich moral critique provided by these characters…
The fourth adventure in the bestselling Hitchhiker’s series brings Arthur Dent back to Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange travel than a ratty towel, a plastic…
The Bible is funny! Very funny, according to Douglas Adams. In this book, Adams demonstrates how readers can discover this often-neglected humor looking at the Bible as a whole and…
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The adventure continues for the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades as they hurtle across space and desperately search for a place to eat in this second volume…
Adams is back with the amazing, unprecedented, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, has grown up on a remote world at the…
From the unfathomable imagination of Douglas Adams, this is his internationally bestselling final book; a zany collection of essays, articles, anecdotes, and stories.
Contains a 92-page bonus section on the making of the movie! –Cover.
In Life, the Universe and Everything, the third title in Douglas Adams’ blockbusting sci-fi comedy series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a…
The fifth hilarious novel in the classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series follows the exploits of Arthur Dent, who has to adjust to a new life when his spaceship…
Originally published in Great Britain by Pan Books, Ltd., in 1979 –Title page verso.
Now in paperback in one complete volume, this ultimate guide collects the five classic novels from Adams’s beloved Hitchhiker series.
From the unfathomable imagination of Douglas Adams, this is his internationally bestselling final book: a zany collection of essays, articles, anecdotes, and stories.
Originally published in hardcover in different form in the United Kingdom by Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, London, in 1979 and subsequently in the United States by Harmony…
Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
When Earth is destroyed to make way for a Hyperspatial express route, Arthur Dent discovers that space is big, as he is taken on a hair- raising tour of the…
What do a dead cat, a computer whizz-kid, an electric monk, quantum mechanics, a chronologit over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and pizza have in common? Apparently not much…
Following the smash-hit sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second part in Douglas Adams’ multi-media phenomenon and cult…
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth installment in Douglas Adams’ bestselling cult classic, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘trilogy’.
Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final part in Douglas Adams’ much-loved cult classic series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Neil Gaiman
Celebrates the life and work of Douglas Adams who, in a field in Innsbruck in 1971, had an idea that became The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy .
Two radio documentaries exploring Douglas Adams’ vision of the digital future, plus Did Douglas Get it Right?, presented by Mitch Benn
Technology affects almost everything we do, and its possibilities…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
Now in audiobook for the first time ever! Read by Neil Gaiman and Simon Jones, the original Arthur Dent, and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman…
