Monday, March 8, 2010

An upcoming "I was Douglas Adams' flatmate" book?

In 2006, The comedy writer Jon Canter fondly recalled how his accidental role as faithful servant to Douglas Adams and a host of other amusing chaps inspired his first novel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... alaxy.html

Jon Canter was also interviewed by Andrew McGibbon about the experience on BBC Radio 4, 16 Dec 2008, 11:30. You can still listen to the interview here :

http://speechification.com/2008/12/22/i ... flat-mate/

At the begining of 2010, a strange book appeared on amazon.co.uk which would be published on august 2010 "I Was Douglas Adams' Flatmate" by Andrew McGibbon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Was-Douglas-A ... 910&sr=8-1

I quickly got in touch with Faber & Faber regarding the upcoming book. Here is their answer :

"It is due to be published February 2011. The whole book doesn’t focus on just Douglas Adams; it’s more of a compendium of ‘significant others’ to celebrities."

So it's more a companion book to the radio4 series 'I was..." which featured "i was douglas adams flatmate". I suspect that the title won't be "I was douglas adams flatmate" then but it should be an interesting read nevertheless.

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