42 ways the hitchhiker’s author elevated the world

At 16, I was doing my first year of A levels at a minor public school in Oxfordshire. I’d done pretty well in my GCSEs – I got one ‘B’, which disappointed me, but it was biology and I don’t feel it’s

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IT’S ONE THING for two guys to click in bed. Quite another to make it on the road. For six weeks I’d been sharing a single bed with a hot scientist in the middle of England. Was it too soon for Paris?

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When it comes to famous diarists, Britain can lay claim to an eclectic body of talent. The godfather of the genre is Samuel Pepys, the cheese-burying MP who furnished us with a unique chronicle of Res