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Ben Elton's multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers.

He is married and has three children.



Trade Review
Big up to Ben Elton and respect, big time. Top, top book * Mail on Sunday *
Wry, fast and fiendishly clever * The Times *
A book with pace and wit, real tension, a dark background theme and a big on-screen climax * Independent *
The perfect modern-day whodunit. A cracking read full of hilarious insights into the Big Brother phenomenon * Mirror *
One of the best whodunits I have ever read...a funny, gripping, hugely entertaining thriller, but also a persuasive, dyspeptic account of the way we live now, with our insane, inane cult of the celebrity * Sunday Telegraph *

Dead Famous

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Black Swan
      Published 1 July 2002
      ISBN-13 9780552999458
      978-0552999458
      ISBN-10 0552999458
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Ben Elton's multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers.

      He is married and has three children.



      Trade Review
      Big up to Ben Elton and respect, big time. Top, top book * Mail on Sunday *
      Wry, fast and fiendishly clever * The Times *
      A book with pace and wit, real tension, a dark background theme and a big on-screen climax * Independent *
      The perfect modern-day whodunit. A cracking read full of hilarious insights into the Big Brother phenomenon * Mirror *
      One of the best whodunits I have ever read...a funny, gripping, hugely entertaining thriller, but also a persuasive, dyspeptic account of the way we live now, with our insane, inane cult of the celebrity * Sunday Telegraph *

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