Ben Elton (20 kníh)
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Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson, John Lloyd BlackadderThe complete Blackadder scripts by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson and John Lloyd. Twenty-six years ago, Edmund Blackadder made his first appearance on our screens. Comedy has never been the same since (nor indeed has history)...
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Ben Elton Blind Faith ENAs Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of commuters, he is confronted by the intimidating figure of his priest, full of accusatory questions. 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 a…
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Ben Elton Chart Throb ENChart 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 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…
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Ben Elton Chart ThrobBen Elton is about to put the “real” back into Reality TV in his biting satire of one of today’s most popular cultural phenomena — the TV talent show. 95,000 hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner....
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Ben Elton Dead Famous ENOne house, ten contestants, thirty cameras, forty microphones, one murder…and no evidence.Dead Famous is a killer read from Ben Elton – Reality TV as you’ve never seen it before.
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Ben Elton First Casualty ENFlanders, 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 released and sent to…
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Ben Elton High Society ENThe war on drugs has been lost. The simple fact is that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From pop stars and royal 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 about Britain today, a criminal nation in which everybody is either breaking the law or knows people who do. It…
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Ben Elton High Society ENThe 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 the Groucho Club toilets to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, we are all partners in crime and this story takes us through the landscape it has created.
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Ben Elton Identity CrisisWhy are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and ...
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Ben Elton Identity CrisisWhy are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV ...
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Ben Elton Lepší společnost CZV satirickém románu Bena Eltona nahlédneme do světa, ve kterém už neplatí žádné zákony. Přiznejme si to: válku s drogami jsme definitivně prohráli. Už nemůžeme dál zavírat oči před faktem, že je celý svět protkán hustou sítí nejrůznějších kriminálních živlů. Popové hvězdičky, členové královských rodin, návštěvníci snobských klubů, děvky i bezdomovci, jedeme v tom prostě všichni a současná Británie je zemí, v níž…
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Ben Elton Meltdown ENFor 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…
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Ben Elton Meltdown ENFor 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…
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Ben Elton Past Mortem ENWith 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 cyberspace, the years slip…
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Ben Elton PopcornBruce Delamitri nakrúca filmy o zabijakoch. Veľkolepé filmy vo veľkom štýle. Nie obyčajné - lacné, s mizivou inteligenciou, moralizujúce, ktoré nedostatok vtipných nápadov vyvažujú krvou a populárnymi svalovcami na obaloch videokaziet. Bruce robí filmy, čo majú švih...Preklad: Eduard Krnáč a kol.
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Ben Elton Smrteľne slávniJeden dom. Desať súťažiacich. Tridsať kamier. Štyridsať mikrofónov. Prežije len jeden. Toto je slogan televízneho programu Domáce väzenie. Vtipná, dynamická paródia spisovateľa Bena Eltona na tzv. reality show, na seriály, v ktorých uzavretú skupinu ľudí dňom i nocou neúprosne špehujú desiatky kamier a mikrofónov, spred ktorých niet úniku. Napriek ustavičnej kontrole sa stane vražda. Ako sa to mohlo stať? Ako to,…
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Ben Elton Totální kolaps CZBrilantní bláznivá parodie na reklamou zhlouplý svět vzývající modlu automobilismu a kontrolovaný politickými machinacemi, kterou autor pojal jako akční film překypující napětím a sžíravým humorem nemilosrdně nastavuje zrcadlo realitě moderní doby.
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Ben Elton Two Brothers ENBerlin 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…
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Ben Elton Yes, IndeedYES, INDEED charts, for the first time, Ben Elton's stellar career in the world of British comedy. From growing up in Catford, drama school at the age of 16 and the first faltering steps on the stage of the Comedy Store to Friday Night Live, ...
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