Books written by Ben Elton

Chart Throb

It was simply not possible that the village idiots at whom the nation howled as they assured Calvin that they were the new Justin Timberlake could act as they did without at least some prompting. Of course the human material had to be ...
Popcorn

Poor white trash, but what poor white trash would look like had it just descended from Mount Olympus. Tanned, shapely legs stretching up forever from the glossy painted toes on her bare feet to the jeans cut down to a tiny pair of ...
Past Mortem

When Newson finally gained access to the murder room he was pleased to see that the forensic pathologist in attendance was Alice Clarke, a woman with whom he was well acquainted. Newson always found it easier working with people he knew ...
This Other Eden

The riots were dying down as he drove his hire car through Century City; the city, legend had it, that Liz Taylor built. Nathan had heard the story a number of times in various versions. The facts seemed to be that the whole area had ...
This Other Eden

It's the end of the world as we know it... ...and Nathan Hoddy would feel fine, if only he could get his brilliant new script green-lighted.
High Society

HIGH SOCIETY is a story or rather a collection of interconnected stories that takes the reader on a hilarious, heart breaking and terrifying journey through the kaleidoscope world that the law has created and from which the law offers no ...
High Society

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.
Meltdown

For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll.
Maybe baby

Avoir un bébé. Tel est le rêve de Lucy. Ecrire pour Hollywood. Tel est le rêve de Sam. Deux projets contrariés par la stérilité, au propre comme au figuré. Car...
Blast from the Past

Part noir thriller, part hilarious send-up of the politics of extremism, Blast from the Past is the new novel from English comedy phenomenon (stand-up, playwright, television writer, and author) Ben Elton--a name soon to be known in all ...
Stark: Satirical Thriller

Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn.
Two Brothers

And the brothers are faced with an unimaginable choice... Which one of them will survive? Ben Elton's most personal novel to date, Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour.
Dead Famous

"Wry, fast and fiendishly clever" (The Times) One house.
Blind Faith

And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed. Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture.
Upstart Crow

With sparkling wordplay, hilarious gags and his trademark wit, Ben Elton celebrates the great William Shakespeare and reveals the startling stories behind the playwright’s best-known plays.
Time and Time Again: A Novel

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.
Two Brothers

Bestselling author Ben Elton's most personal novel to date, Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour. Berlin 1920 Two babies are born. Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything.
The First Casualty

'A work of formidable imaginative scope' Daily Telegraph The first casualty when war comes is truth .
Identity Crisis

Begging for forgiveness, assuring the public “that is not who I am”. But if nobody is who they are anymore - then who the f##k are we? Ben Elton returns with a blistering satire of the world as it fractures around us.
Popcorn: A Play

Set in the Beverly Hills home of Oscar winning movie director Bruce Delamitri, Popcorn is a satirical comedy thriller with the firepower of a hit squad. When notorious killers Wayne...