Born into a long line of distinguished lepidopterists, scientists who study moths and butterflies, Ginny and Vivien grew up in a sprawling Victorian home. Forty-seven years later, Ginny lives there alone, tending to her moths and obsessions amid the ghosts of her past.

But when her sister Vivien returns to the crumbling family mansion, dark, unspoken secrets rise, disrupting Ginny's ordered life and threatening the family's fragile peace. Told in Ginny's unforgettable voice, this debut novel tells a disquieting story of two sisters and the ties that bind-sometimes a little too tightly.

What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common?

Apparently, not much: until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza - not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge).

To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it and then read it) - or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

After adapting his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy scripts from the BBC radio series into two successful novels, author Douglas Adams reshaped a rejected "Doctor Who" script he'd written into this third novel in the original trilogy. Reluctant space traveler Arthur Dent finds himself drawn into a race to save the universe from the people of Krikkit, who, upon discovering that they're not alone in the universe, set out to destroy it.

In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophies, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair. 

When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even the British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. No rational cause could be found for the explosion - it was simply designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport, trying to catch the 15.37 to Oslo?

EDITORIAL REVIEW: In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And then, just as he thinks things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. Discover the origins of life on Earth - and don't be shocked if it's not what they taught you at school.

EDITORIAL REVIEW: This title celebrates the thirty years of comic genius of Douglas Adams. Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. Depressed and alone, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There's nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in their hands. When she runs away - Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe. After all - he's encountered most of them before. This title is volume five in the trilogy of five.

SUMMARY: Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. . . .God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it's light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new?From the Paperback edition.

EDITORIAL REVIEW: One Thursday lunchtime, the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. It's the final straw for Arthur Dent, who has already had his house bulldozed that morning. But for Arthur, that is only the beginning ...In the seconds before global obliteration, Arthur is plucked from the planet by his friend Ford Prefect - and together the pair venture out across the galaxy on the craziest, strangest road trip of all time.

EDITORIAL REVIEW: When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains - "Where shall we have dinner?" "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about. This is volume two in the Trilogy of five.

318 av. J.-C., désert de Libye:Alexandre le Grand est enterré comme un dieu. Dans un sarcophage de cristal, au fin fond d'un dédale de chambres mortuaires remplies de richesses incroyables: or, diamants, rubis... pour le plus grand conquérant de tous les temps. Il aurait dû y reposer à jamais. Mais l'Histoire en a décidé autrement…2007:L'archéologue Daniel Knox est sur le point de découvrir la tombe d'Alexandre le Grand, perdue depuis des siècles.Mais il est confronté à la corruption des institutions égyptiennes et aux idéaux du Macédonien Dragoumis, qui souhaite s'approprier le corps d'Alexandre à des fins politiques. Si la dépouille tombait aux mains des séparatistes macédoniens, la guerre civile serait inévitable. Daniel Knox se lance alors à corps perdu dans la quête du tombeau d'Alexandre. II doit faire vite car il est poursuivi par les hommes de main des séparatistes, prêts à tout pour s'attribuer sa découverte. Même à capturer Gaëlle, une jeune archéologue française dont il est très proche et qui est également la fille d'un vieil ami mort dans des circonstances étranges. Le passé trouble qui unit les deux jeunes archéologues ne facilite pas leurs rapports. Mais le temps presse, et les enjeux dépassent largement le cadre de l'archéologie...

Arthur Dent zit sinds het vorige boek nog altijd vast op de prehistorische aarde. Hij heeft de afgelopen vijf jaar doorgebracht in een grot. Net voor hij gek dreigt te worden, haalt zijn vriend Ford Prefect hem terug naar de toekomst via een scheur in het tijd-ruimte continuüm. Ze komen echter niet in hun eigen tijd terecht maar op de moderne aarde, twee dagen voor de vernietiging door de Vogons. Hier zijn ze getuige van hoe een groep robots de Lord's Cricket Ground aanvalt op een manier die doet denken aan een gewelddadige vorm van cricket. De robots stelen tevens The Ashes. Slartibartfast, een voormalige planeetontwerper van Magrathea, arriveert te laat om de robots te stoppen. Daarom vraagt hij Ford en Arthur om hulp.

Het Transgalactisch Liftershandboek (Engels: The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy) is een komisch sciencefictionfranchise bedacht door Douglas Adams. Het begon als een radiohoorspel van twaalf afleveringen, voor het eerst uitgezonden in 1978 door BBC Radio, daarna door de BBC World Service. In 1981 werd er een zesdelige televisieserie gemaakt. Al snel volgden andere media, waaronder een computerspel, drie toneelbewerkingen, negen graphic novels, een speelfilm en heel veel merchandise. De boekenserie was echter het succesvolst: tussen 1979 en 1992 verschenen vijf delen van de reeks. In 2008 kreeg auteur Eoin Colfer toestemming van de weduwe van Douglas Adams om de reeks af te maken met een zesde deel dat dit jaar in het Nederlands verschijnt: En dan nog iets...


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