Inconceivable

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

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

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

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

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...

Inconceivable

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