Then She Was Gone
  • Published: 27 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9781787534674
  • Imprint: BBC CD
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 20 hr 30 min
  • Narrators: Simon Jones, Peter Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan, Stephen Moore, Jim Broadbent
  • RRP: $200.00

Then She Was Gone

From the number one bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

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A brand new luxury box set comprising the complete Hitchhiker’s Guide series, featuring brand new bonus material

Don’t panic! This brand new collector’s edition box set contains the only audiobooks you’ll ever need on your galactic travels – the complete BBC radio productions of Douglas Adams’s legendary saga. Included are:

The two original series, the Primary and Secondary Phases, remastered by Dirk Maggs with vibrant sound and music and including a 55-minute feature programme, Douglas Adams’s Guide tothe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a fascinating 50-minute interview with Douglas Adams

Extended editions of the Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases, directed by Dirk Maggs and featuring over 1½ hours of material not heard on BBC Radio 4

The concluding Hexagonal Phase, with a further 50 minutes of extra unbroadcast content

A special bonus disc featuring Douglas Adams’s appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Bookclub, in which he talks to James Naughtie and a group of readers about comedy, sci-fi, the creation of his characters and his influences

Grab your towel, pour yourself a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and get set for over 20 hours of unmissable radio adventure!
  • Published: 27 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9781787534674
  • Imprint: BBC CD
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 20 hr 30 min
  • Narrators: Simon Jones, Peter Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan, Stephen Moore, Jim Broadbent
  • RRP: $200.00
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About the authors

Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams was born on 11 March 1952 in Cambridge. His parents divorced when he was five, and Douglas and his younger sister Susan were brought up by their mother in Essex. From 1959 to 1970 Douglas attended Brentwood School, and he first thought seriously about writing when a teacher named Frank Halford gave him ten out of ten for a composition. He was the only boy ever to have been awarded full marks.
Leaving school in December 1970, Douglas won a scholarship to study English at Cambridge. His main reason for going there was to join Footlights, although his first attempt to do so was a failure. He succeeded in joining in his second term, but found the group which ran the society a bit stand-offish. He also felt constrained by the limits of pantomimes and mid-term revues, so instead he set up his own revue group, Adams-Smith-Adams, with two friends. It was very successful.

Douglas left Cambridge in the summer of 1974 and took occasional office jobs before joining forces with Monty Python team member Graham Chapman. They collaborated on a number of projects; unfortunately, very few of them were ever broadcast. A while later he was invited to Cambridge to direct the 1976 Footlights revue, but even this turned out to be a disappointment. At the end of the year, broke and feeling like a failure, Douglas moved back home with his mother.
In 1977 his luck changed. Through his former flatmate John Lloyd, Douglas met BBC Radio 4 producer Simon Brett. He felt that Douglas' style of humour should have its own show, rather than being crammed into existing formats. Having been inspired by a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe, Douglas came up with a draft for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. After several delays the first six-episode series was broadcast, with a second rapidly following. The worldwide phenomenon they spawned includes five novels, a book of scripts, two LPs, a television series, a computer game and two stage plays.
In addition to Hitchhiker, Douglas' work included two Dirk Gently detective novels and two humorous place-name 'dictionaries', The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff (both co-written with John Lloyd) as well as Last Chance to See, an account of a global search for rare and endangered species which he co-wrote with Mark Carwardine.

In 1999 Douglas moved to Santa Barbara with his wife and daughter to work on a proposed Hitchhiker film. Always a keen advocate of new technology, his last series for Radio 4 was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future, a look at the advances mankind was likely to make in future years.He died suddenly of a heart attack, aged 49, in May 2001. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy feature film was produced in 2005, whilst both Stephen Mangan and Samuel Barnett have portrayed Dirk Gently on television in recent years.

Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer is the megaselling author of the Artemis Fowl series, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, Airman, The Legend of . . . books and, most recently, the WARP series. He lives with his family in Ireland. www.eoincolfer.com

Praise for Then She Was Gone

If you're looking for something darker and twistier Girl On The Train style, Lisa Jewell's new thriller, Then She Was Gone . is one to buy

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A dark, compulsive psychological thriller, yet one which is also uplifting and tender. I absolutely loved Then She Was Gone.

Rachel Rhys, author of Dangerous Crossing 9733

A MISSING GIRL. A BURIED SECRET. From the acclaimed author of I Found You and the Richard & Judy bestseller, The Girls, comes a compulsively twisty psychological thriller that will keep you gripped to the very last page.

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Both utterly gripping and startlingly original. Prepare to be hooked.

Sun

What begins as a story about the mother of a missing girl starting a new relationship as she comes terms with her grief morphs into a gripping, disturbing and utterly fascinating tale about what really happened to young Ellie Mack. I've been a Lisa Jewell fan for a long time and in this book, as in all her others, she deftly weaves a compelling plot with an emotional depth that leaves you gasping. In Then She Was Gone she has created a book that is dark and claustrophobic but also heartfelt and moving. Then She Was Gone packs a huge emotional punch that will leave you winded. I loved it.

CL Taylor, author of The Escape, The Lie and The Missing

A tense clever page-tuner that everyone will be talking about.

Adele Parks

She has departed from her usual chick lit and gone full tilt into a psycho thriller, but she's lost none of her brilliance. Indeed, I think this is my favourite of hers so far. Deeply emotional and incredibly clever. Bravo

Mail Online

Smart and engrossing

Sunday Mirror

Smart and engrossing, this deftly plotted thriller will tug at your heartstrings

The People

After last year's fantastic I Found You, Lisa Jewell is on a roll with another fast paced and cleverly plotted psychological thriller . If this sounds quite run of the mill, it's not. Lisa Jewell writes with such a keen eye for detail, so much heart and yet deviousness that I can't wait to read what she comes up with next

Red

Jewell builds a gripping novel around a maze of dark secrets, a tautly wound psychological thriller in which the suspense builds slowly. Her storytelling is immaculate, hopping between past and present, and in and out of characters. It's a tough read at times, but Jewell always keeps everything moving. The intrigue never flags as she pushed towards a redemptive resolution. As astute and emotionally charged read, riddled with creepiness. Fully recommended

Irish News

I defy you to put this addictive book down until you reach the final heart-breaking page

Daily Express

This compulsive psychological read from one of our favourite authors will leave you breathless

Fabulous Magazine

pleasingly twisted. I gulped this in one long, thirsty session, sitting by the pool on holiday.

Sam Baker, The Pool

This book was simply perfect - easy to fall into, hard to escape, and with so much to figure out you barely wanted to leave anyway.

Bookbag

Chilling and heartbreaking

Good Housekeeping

Jewell builds a gripping novel around a maze of dark secrets, a tautly wound psychological thriller in which the suspense builds slowly. Fully recommended

Dorset Echo

Jewell has always been a favourite writer. Seeing her fully embrace her dark side is a massive treat. A dark, sad and deeply disturbing exploration of the aftermath of the loss of a beloved child, Then She Was Gone deserves to be a huge hit.

Alex Marwood

an engrossing read

Mature Times

beautifully told. the reader is taken from heartbreak to hope via a series of twists and turns worthy of the best thrillers

LivingEDGE

highly entertaining

In Style

'In this dark and captivating novel, the different strands slowly but surely come together, and the result is that rare thing - a thriller that will break your heart'

Metro

Unnerving, and with a juicy reveal, this is rightly a modern classic

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