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(0)Ben Elton
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It's the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history....
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Ben Elton returns with a blistering satire of the world as it fractures around us. Get ready for a roller-coaster thriller, where nothing - and no one - is off limits. Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups....
3) High society
Author
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Ben Elton provides a story, or rather a collection of interconnected stories, that takes the reader on an hilarious, heart breaking and terrifying journey through the kaleidoscope world that the law has created and from which the law offers no protection.
5) Gridlock
Author
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Deborah is a woman with personal transportation problems which she and her strange friend Geoffrey intend to solve. If they manage it, the knock-on effect could just save the cities of the world from driving themselves to their own funerals.
6) Dead famous
Author
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2002
Description
House Arrest is just another televised, real-life soap opera. But, in spite of the cameras, a murder takes place. The public are left to wonder who the murderer is, and who will be the next victim.
8) Two brothers
Author
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2012
Description
After the irresponsible, ignorant bliss of financial boom, stockbroker Jimmy and his family are forced to confront financial meltdown in this hilarious and deeply pertinent domestic drama.
10) Past mortem
Author
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2005
Description
It is a question mild-mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself when, in romantic desperation, he logs on to the Friends Reunited website in search of the girlfriends of his youth. But Newson is not the only member of the Class of '88 who has been raking over the ashes of the past.
11) Popcorn
Author
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2003
Description
From the bizarre and brilliant mind of Ben Elton, author of the bestselling 'Stark' and 'This Other Eden', comes his latest gripping novel - a deeply ironic portrayal of Hollywood's trendiest genre: film noir.
12) Stark
Author
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God & the social conscience of a dog on a lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying. Deep in Western Australia where the Aboriginals used to milk the trees, a planet-sized plot is taking shape.