The equally official hardback film tie-in to the Summer 2005 blockbuster movie. The Hollywood movie stars Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, Mos Def as Ford Prefect, Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast and the gamine Zooey Deschanel as Trillium. THE HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY is a true publishing phenomenon, appeals across the board to mainstream and SF fans, and lovers of humour and comics Hardback A-format at a bargain price, ideal for gift buyers Striking new cover More than 10 million copies of Douglas Adams's books sold across the world Douglas Adamsisms such as Belgium! (as an expletive!) and 42 (as the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything!) have entered British dictionaries!

Douglas Adams came to world-wide prominence with the BBC Radio series The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which subsequently became the bestselling novel, a television series, a stage play, a computer game, audio cassettes, CD-roms and a towel, and was followed by the last two books in the original trilogy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and Life, The Universe and Everything, then a number of other fiction and non-fiction books. Douglas Adams died in 2001.