Ben Elton

• Jan-1991
• / General Fiction
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Lucy desperately wants a baby. Sam is determined to write a hit movie. The problem is that both their efforts seem to be unfruitful. And given that the average IVF cycle has about a one in five chance of going into full production, Lucy's chances of ...

• Sep-1991
• / Thriller
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Gridlock is when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. How did it come to this? How did the ultimate freedom machine end up paralysing us...

• Oct-1993
• / General Fiction
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SMALL, WELL APPOINTED FUTURE. SEMI DETACHED.If the end of the world is nigh, then surely it's only sensible to make alternative arrangements. Certainly the Earth has its points, but what most people need is something smaller and more manageable. Of c...

• Nov-1997
• / Suspense
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Bruce Delamitri makes movies about killers. Great movies, stylish movies. Bruce's movies are hip. Post-modern cinematic milestones, dripping with ironic juxtaposition. His killers are style icons. They walk cool; they talk cool. Getting shot by one o...

• Jul-1999
• / Political Thriller
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Ready to follow Nick Hornsby and Helen Fielding as the next big thing from Cool Britannia to hit America is Ben Elton. Already known to a wide public television audience as the funnyman behind Blackadder, The Young Ones, and The Thin Blue Line, Elton...

• Oct-2000
• / General Fiction
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Originally planned to play just 40 dates, such was its phenomenal success that it expanded to a staggering 112 performances and was seen by well over 200,000 people around the country. Now everyone has the chance to hear this hilarious show for this ...

• Dec-2000
• / General Fiction
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An omnibus edition of "Stark" and "Gridlock". Stark has more money than God and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, they know the Earth is dying and hatch the richest conspiracy in history. In "Gridlock", Deborah is on a mi...

• Nov-2001
• / General Fiction
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"Wry, fast and fiendishly clever" (The Times)One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones.Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposu...

• Mar-2003
• / Suspense
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The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From pop stars and princes to crack whores and street kids. From the Groucho Club toilets to the poppy fie...

• Dec-2004
• / Suspense
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'A writer who provokes, almost as much as he entertains' Daily Mail'Engaging and smartly plotted' Observer___With old friends like these, who needs enemies?It's a question mild mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself when, in romant...

• Jan-2006
• / Suspense
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'A work of formidable imaginative scope' Daily Telegraph The first casualty when war comes is truth . . . Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead. , He is killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from she...

• Mar-2006
• / Thriller
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Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet 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 takin...

• Dec-2006
• / General Fiction
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Ben Elton is about to put the "real" back into Reality TV in his biting satire of one of today's most popular cultural phenomena -- the TV talent show. 95,000 hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that's Colin Simms, the genius behind t...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crow...

• Nov-2009
• / General Fiction
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Bestselling author Ben Elton's most personal novel to date, Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour.Berlin 1920Two babies are born.Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood.As Ge...

• Jan-2010
• / General Fiction
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For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenaline charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab.But Jimmy was as lucky in love as...

• Dec-2013
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-2015
• / Science Fiction
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If you had one chance to change history...Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill? In Time and Time Again, international best-selling author Ben Elton takes readers on a thrilling journey through early 20th-Century Europe. It'...

• Apr-2019
• / Literary
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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 kaleido...