The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Dazzlingly inventive – Caitlin MoranFizzing with ideas … Brilliant – Charlie BrookerThe first book that wasn’t by Roald Dahl that really made me laugh. Arthur Dent is this humdrum person in search of a cup of tea and ends up going on mind-blowing adventures. He is so ordinary and the circumstances are so extraordinary that it was the funniest thing I’d ever read – Robert WebbIt changed my whole life. It’s literally out of this world – Tom BakerReally entertaining and fun – Michael PalinHitchhiker’s is packed with that unique energy, all barmy and bristling and bold. This book can be witty, iconoclastic, godless, savage, sweet, surreal, but above all, it dares to be silly. Fiercely, beautifully silly – Russell T Davies, writer and producer of Doctor WhoHe had almost a Wodehousian style and some of his phrases and jokes entered our language. He changed the way people spoke – Stephen FryThere has never been another writer remotely like Douglas Adams. He discovered a completely new genre – scientific wit – and having discovered it he raised it to dizzying heights – Tony RobinsonQuite good I suppose, if you like brilliantly entertaining books written with a touch of imaginative genius – Griff Rhys JonesVery occasionally a book comes along that changes the way you laugh and what you laugh about – Richard DawkinsOne of the world’s sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices * Independent on Sunday *Sheer delight * The Times *Magical … read this book * Sunday Express *Really entertaining and fun – John CleeseMuch funnier than anything John Cleese has written – Terry JonesWho is John Cleese? – Eric IdleI know for a fact that John Cleese hasn’t read it – Graham Chapman

Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.

In addition to Hitchhiker, He is also the author of the Dirk Gently novels: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.