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  • Ben Elton Collection

    Gridlock, Chart Throb and Blind Faith

    by Ben Elton ...
    GridlockToo many cars and not enough space equals gridlock.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 all? How did we end up driving to our own funeral, in somebody else's gravy train?Deborah and ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • Stark

    Satirical Thriller

    by Ben Elton ...
    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 taking shape. Some green freaks pick up the scent: a pommie poseur; a brain-fried Vietnam vet; Aboriginals who have lost their land...not much against a ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Identity Crisis

    by Ben Elton ...
    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. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his already complex investigation is further impeded by the fact that he simply ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Blind Faith

    by Ben Elton ...
    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 crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this world, uniformity is everything. And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dead Famous

    by Ben Elton ...
    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 exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest.Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • The First Casualty

    by Ben Elton ...
    Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder.Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs. He is ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Meltdown

    by Ben Elton ...
    For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin 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 he was at betting on dodgy derivatives, so instead of burning out, his star just burned brighter than ever. Rich, pampered and successful, Jimmy, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Have I Done?

    My Autobiography

    by Ben Elton ...
    The instant Sunday Times bestseller and **critics' pick of the best biographies and memoirs of the year.‘What Have I Done? snaps, crackles and pops with wit, bravado and glorious Ben-ness. A triumph’ – Stephen Fry‘A big life chronicled by truly the Upstart Crow of our generation’ – Dawn French**Ben Elton has done everything and worked with everybody. Now, in this frank, forthright, and hugely ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Past Mortem

    A heart-stopping thriller and killer comic romance

    by Ben Elton ...
    With old friends like these, who needs enemies?It's 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. Newson is not the only member of the Class of take back '88 who has been raking over the ashes of the past. As his old class begins to reassemble in ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • This Other Eden

    by Ben Elton ...
    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 course there are those who say that's planetary treason, but who cares what the weirdos and terrorists think? Not Nathan. All he cares is that his ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Chart Throb

    by Ben Elton ...
    Chart Throb.The ultimate pop quest.Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner.And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show.Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he has pre-selected in his carefully scripted 'search' for a star, he has no idea that the rules are changing ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Upstart Crow

    by Ben Elton ...
    "This does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder" Radio Times"A knockabout, well-researched take on the working and domestic life of Shakespeare." The GuardianIt’s the 1590s. William Shakespeare – brought to life on screen by the inimitable David Mitchell – is at the start of his career. But no one is taking him seriously. In London, he is mercilessly mocked by his rivals and at home in ... Read more

    $22.39 USD