PENGUIN REVEAL JACKET FOR AND ANOTHER THING … AND ANNOUNCE PLANS TO JOIN FORCES WITH PAN MACMILLAN FOR HITCHHIKER BONANZA THIS AUTUMN
London, 9 March 2009 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. Over the last thirty years, 16 million readers around the world have enjoyed the adventures of Arthur Dent, Trillian, Zaphod Beeblebox and Ford Prefect.
This autumn, Penguin is joining forces with Douglas Adams’s paperback publisher, Pan Macmillan to create huge combined Hitchhiker excitement; bringing together the two vast armies of fans: those of the original Hitchhiker books and the many millions of Eoin Colfer fans. (Colfer’s Artemis Fowl titles have sold more than 18 million copies globally.)
Pan Macmillan and Penguin will be working closely to create a joined-up campaign that leads readers from the original titles – which are all being beautifully repackaged by Pan with new introductions – and then onto the new book. Starting in early September, the campaign will then run in store, online and in the media through the autumn and right up until Christmas.
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.
At an event held at Penguin’s London offices last night the jacket for And Another Thing… was revealed.
Publication details:
And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer is published in hardback from Michael Joseph on 12th October 2009 ISBN 9780718155148, £20
New anniversary editions of Douglas Adams’ original titles will be available in paperback at £7.99 from Pan with new introductions from notable people in the Hitchhiker world, including Russell T Davies, Dirk Maggs and Terry Jones and with an afterword from Simon Brett, the original commissioner of the radio series on 4th September 2009:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, The Universe and Everything
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
Already available from BBC Audiobooks:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase Special Edition, £17.61
9781408409763
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Secondary Phase Special Edition, £17.61, 9781408409770
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy : Tertiary Phase, £15.65 9780563510437
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Quandary Phase, £12.72 9780563504962
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy : The Quintessential Phase, £12.72, 9780563504078
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy : The Complete Radio Series, £17.01
9780563504191