The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Dazzlingly inventive – Caitlin MoranFizzing with ideas … Brilliant – Charlie BrookerReally entertaining and fun – John CleeseMuch funnier than anything John Cleese has written – Terry JonesI know for a fact that John Cleese hasn’t read it – Graham ChapmanWho is John Cleese? – Eric IdleReally 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 Who

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. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.