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Ben Elton's career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past twenty years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comedian, he is the writer of such TV hits as The Young Ones, Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line. Most recently he has written the BBC series Blessed on the subject of young parenthood. Elton has written three musicals, The Beautiful Game, We Will Rock You and Tonight's the Night and three West End plays. His internationally bestselling novels include Chart Throb,The First Casualty, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous and High Society. He wrote and directed the successful film Maybe Baby based on his novel Inconceivable starring Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson.

Available Books by Ben Elton

	Blind Faith Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552773904 RRP: $19.95 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 defiance...
	Meltdown Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552775113 RRP: $14.95 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,...
	Meltdown Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780593061930 RRP: $32.95 After the irresponsible, ignorant bliss of financial boom, city trader Jimmy and his family are forced to confront financial meltdown in this hilarious and deeply pertinent domestic drama....
	The First Casualty Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552773362 RRP: $14.95 Flanders, June 1917: A British officer is shot dead. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Konig is sent to France in order to secure a conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hellish backdrop of war, Konig soon discovers that both evidence and witnesses are quite literally disappearing into the mud that su...
	High Society Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552150538 RRP: $14.95 The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face that fact 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 fields of Afghanistan, we are all partners in crime. 'High Society' is a story or rather a collection of interconnected stories that takes the reade...
	This Other Eden Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552151009 RRP: $19.95 If the end of the world is nigh, then surely it's only sensible to mike alternative arrangements. Certainly the Earth has its good 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 movie gets made and that there'...
	Inconceivable Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552148191 RRP: $19.95 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 getting what she wants are considerably better than Sam's. What Sam and Lucy are about to go through is absolutely inconceivable. The que...
	Blast From The Past Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552146647 RRP: $19.95 It's 2.15 a.m., you're in bed alone and the phone wakes you. Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone good with bad news, which would probably be worse. You lie in the dark...

	Chart Throb Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552773768 RRP: $19.95 Chart Throb is the ultimate pop quest. There are 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, he has no idea that the rules are changing....
	Dead Famous Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552999458 RRP: $21.95 Reality television takes a deadly turn when ten contestants in a single house that comes complete with cameras and microphones are suddenly confronted by a murder with absolutely no evidence. Original....
	High Society Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552999953 RRP: $19.95 ...
	High Society Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780593049396 RRP: $38.95 The author presents a terrifying vision of a world out of control, ruled by drug lords and their criminal organizations and encouraging an environment of lawlessness and chaos....
	Past Mortem Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552771238 RRP: $19.95 ...

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	Ben Elton Omnibus: Stark And Gridlock Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751531442 '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. Deep in Western Australia where the Aborigines used to milk the trees, a planet-sized plot takes shape. Some green freaks pick up the scent. A Pommie poseur, a brain-fried Vietnam Vet, Aborigines who lost their land . . . not much against a conspiracy tha...
	Blast From The Past Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780593044148 It's 2.15 a.m., you're in bed alone and the phone wakes you. Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone good with bad news, which would probably be worse. You lie in the dark...
	Blind Faith Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552773911 As Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of commuters, he is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish Confessor. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does he think he's different or special in some way? Better than his fellow man and woman? Does he have something to hide? Imagine...
	Blind Faith Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780593058015 Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person 'feels' and 'truly believes' is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable is condemned as heresy. A world where to question ignorance and intolerance is to commit a Crime against Faith. Imagine it. Or just wait until After The Flood. On a hot Sagittarian morning in the year 5...
	Chart Throb Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780593057490 CHART THROB.The ultimate pop quest. Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that's Colin Simms, the genius behind the show. Colin always wins because Colin 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 a...
	Chart Throb Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780593057506 Chart Throb.The ultimate pop quest. Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that's Colin Simms, the genius behind the show. Colin always wins because Colin 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 rul...
	Gridlock Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751510119 '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 Geoffrey know; but they have trans...
	Inconceivable Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780593045503 Sam and Lucy seem like the perfect couple. Successful, happy and in love. But life isn't that simple. Lucy thinks Sam is a sad, cold, sensitivity-exclusion zone who would rather read a newspaper than have an emotion. Sam thinks Lucy is blaming him because she can't walk past Mothercare without getting all teary. The problem is that they might be infertile. And in more ways than one. ...
	Meltdown Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780593061923 After the irresponsible, ignorant bliss of financial boom, city trader Jimmy and his family are forced to confront financial meltdown in this hilarious and deeply pertinent domestic drama....
	Past Mortem Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780593050958 With old friends like these, who needs enemies? It's a question short, mild mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself having in romantic desperation logged on to the Friends Reunited website searching for the girlfriends of his youth. Newson is not the only member of the Class of '86 who has been raking over the ashes of the past. As his old class begins to reassemble in ...
	Past Mortem Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780593050965 With old friends like these, who needs enemies? It's a question short, mild mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself having in romantic desperation logged on to the Friends Reunited website searching for the girlfriends of his youth. Newson is not the only member of the Class of '86 who has been raking over the ashes of the past. As his old class begins to reassemble in ...
	Popcorn Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552151016 Bruce shoots movies. Wayne and Scout shoot to kill. In a single night they find out the hard way what's real and what's not, who's the hero and who's the villain. The USA watches slack-jawed as Bruce and Wayne together resolve some serious questions. Does Bruce use erection cream? Does art imitate life or does life simply imitate bad art? And most of all, does sugar-pie really lov...
	Stark Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751501995 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. Deep in Western Australia where the Aborigines used to milk the trees, a planet-sized plot takes shape. Some green freaks pick up the scent. A Pommie poseur, a brain-fried Vietnam Vet, Aborigines who lost their land . . . not much against a conspiracy that controls...
	The First Casualty Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780593051122 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 r...
	The Gospel According To Ben Elton: Popcorn & This Other Eden Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780743467988 Two of Ben Elton's bestsellers, 'Popcorn' and 'This Other Eden' in one volume. 'Popcorn' Bruce makes movies about killers. Wayne and Scout are killers. It's Oscar night and fact is about to confront fiction in this wickedly humorous media satire. 'This Other Eden' The earth is doomed, and no one wants to save it. In a mass survivalist frenzy people buy the...
	This Other Eden Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780671851804 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 movie gets made and that there's...
	This Other Eden Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780743408288 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 movie gets made and that there's...

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