Berlin 1920 Two babies are born.

Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood.



As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance. 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.

TWO BROTHERS

Doris Wallis est une langue de vipère de premier plan qui gagne sa vie en éreintant violemment les célébrités dans un magazine TV. Elle a tout l'attirail d'un bon journaliste people : un toy-boy à peine majeur occasionnellement dealer, une jolie assistante a priori pas insensible à ses charmes, la perspective d'avoir bientôt sa propre émission de télévision et pas l'ombre d'un scrupule dans sa garde-robe. Si elle a le moindre cadavre dans son placard, quelque part entre les stilettos et les menottes, le placard est solidement verrouillé. Ou du moins le croit-elle.

Doris Darling - Occasion

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 movie gets made and that there's somebody left to see it.

In marketing terms the end of the world will be very big. Anyone trying to save it should remember that.

THIS OTHER EDEN

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.



Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture. In this world, nakedness is modesty, independent thought subversive, and ignorance is wisdom. 



A chilling vision of what's to come?  Or something rather closer to home?

Blind Faith

Dead Famous

Nuit grave

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 the villain. A nation watches in awe as Bruce and Wayne resolve the serious questions. Does art imitate life? And does Bruce use erection cream?

Popcorn

With old friends like these, who needs enemies? It's a question detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself having in romantic desperation logged on to the Friends Reunited website searching for girlfriends from his past. Meanwhile, back in the present, Newson is secretly in love with Natasha, his lovely but very attached sergeant, and completely failing to solve a series of baffling and gruesome murders. When a school reunion is planned, history begins to repeat itself and the past crashes headlong into the present. In Past Mortem, Ben Elton delivers both a heart-stopping thriller and a killer comic romance.

Amitiés Mortelles

Bruce Delamitri réalise des films où les tueurs ont la vedette. Pas de ces séries B où de joyeux drilles massacrent à tour de bras, mais des films spectaculaires, d'un réalisme effrayant. A Hollywood, ses héros trash sont devenus des icônes en 35 mm. Wayne et Scout, eux, sont de vrais tueurs. Un couple de déjantés en quête de sensations fortes. Deux Bonnie et Clyde sans états d'âme qui terrorisent l'Amérique. Une nuit, après que le monde entier a assisté à son triomphe lors de la cérémonie des Oscars, Delamitri est pris en otage par ces deux tueurs-nés. Piégé dans sa villa de Beverly Hills, il découvre que ces fans d'un genre très spécial ont imaginé un scénario dont il sera, sous peu, la victime...

Faux espoirs et vraies magouilles dans le monde impitoyable de la télé-réalité. Acide, survoltée, désopilante, une dénonciation sans concessions des dessous du petit écran, par l’auteur deDevine qui vient mourir ce soir ?et d’Amitiés mortelles.Aujourd’hui, ils ne sont plus que douze.A la fin, il n’en restera qu’un…Ze Star, vous connaissez le principe, 12 apprentis chanteurs jetés en pâture à un jury impitoyable : Rodney, pop star has-been, qui vendrait sa mère pour un dernier quart d’heure de gloire, Beryl, une transexuelle en pleine promo pour sa dernière émission de télé-réalité et Calvin Simms, juré, producteur et présentateur un brin mégalo.L’audience est au rendez-vous, les candidats se bousculent, tout irait pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes si la toute nouvelle épouse américaine de Calvin ne s’était pas mise en tête de divorcer. Conscient qu’il pourrait bien se retrouver sur la paille, Calvin joue son va-tout et lui propose un pari : elle choisit le candidat et s’il parvient à le faire gagner, elle ne touchera rien.Prise au jeu, ladite épouse fait son choix : le prince de Galles en personne !La mission s’annonce impossible, sauf peut-être pour le plus pourri des producteurs télé…

Ze star

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, Monica and their friends lived the dream, bringing up their children with an army of domestic helps.

But then it all came crashing down. And when the global financial crisis hit, Jimmy discovers that anyone can handle success. It's how you handle failure that really matters.

MELTDOWN

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. The 'real' is about to be put back into 'reality' television and Calvin and his fellow judges (the nation's favourite mum and the other bloke) are about to become ex-factors themselves.



Ben Elton, author of Popcorn and Dead Famous returns to blistering comic satire with a savagely hilarious deconstruction of the world of modern television talent shows.



Chart Throb. One winner. A whole bunch of losers.

Chart Throb

Une jolie bombe

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 conspiracy that controls society. But EcoAction isn't in society: it just lives in the same place, along with the cockroaches.


If you're facing the richest and most disgusting scheme in history, you have to do more than stick up two fingers and say 'peace'.

STARK - SATIRICAL THRILLER

Benjamin Charles Elton (né le 3 mai 1959 à Londres) est un écrivain, dramaturge, scénariste pour la télévision et le cinéma, humoriste, comédien et réalisateur britannique.

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