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In what promises to be one of the biggest events in the publishing calendar this year, Penguin is publishing Eoin Colfer's specially commissioned sequel to Douglas Adams's remarkable Hitchhiker series, And Another Thing...

Publication is timed for 12 October, which marks the 30th Anniversary of the first publication of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams's so-called trilogy, which in fact ran to five volumes, became one of the biggest cult literary successes of the 20th century.

Penguin is also working with BBC Audiobooks to ensure that the original audio recordings have a place in the anniversary celebrations. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase was voted as the public's number one audio title in a Guardian poll last year, thirty years after the first BBC radio broadcast in 1978.

Let the countdown begin!!! For the full article go to booktrade.info