Kevin Jon Davies
- Writer and producer
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42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas Of Douglas Adams review
What is also evident is that while he put so much of himself in his writing that it was easy to feel that we all knew Douglas Adams, beyond the famous words was also the impact he had on people, his wide readership and the many he interacted with directly, the friends he hosted at his home, encouraged in their own artistic endeavours, offered support to, gave connections from his own eclectic black book of useful contacts, a man who were he still here would understand how we feel in a changing and seemingly directionless world and would see no contradiction in celebrating a ghastly prediction come true while simultaneously offering a guiding hand and a shoulder to cry on through dark and difficult times.
Michael Flett, GeekChocolate, 8th September 202342: The Wildly Improbable Ideas Of Douglas Adams review
After Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams died in 2001 at the unfairly young age of 49, his family donated 67 boxes of his archives - notebooks, letters, scripts and speeches - to his old Cambridge college, St John's. From that treasure trove, documentary-maker and Adams fan Kevin Jon Davies has extracted this fascinating and lavishly presented collection of material that throws new light on the ever-inventive comic genius.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th September 2023Unbound achieves first Sunday Times number one bestseller with Douglas Adams book
Unbound has achieved its first ever number one Sunday Times bestseller with 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas Of Douglas Adams edited by Kevin Jon Davies.
Sian Bayley, The Bookseller, 4th September 2023Douglas Adams archive book to be published
A book featuring extracts from Hitchhiker's Guide creator Douglas Adams' archive is to be published.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd March 2021