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Dead Famous
by Ben Elton
 
 
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‘Big up to Ben Elton and respect, big time. Top, top book’
Mail on Sunday
 

One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones.

Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest.

Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex with whom? Who will the public love and who will they hate? All the usual questions. And then, suddenly, there are some new ones.

Who is the murderer? How did he or she manage to kill under the constant gaze of the thirty television cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next?

‘A book with pace and wit, real tension, a dark background theme and a big on-screen climax’
Independent

‘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

‘Wry, fast and fiendishly clever’
The Times

‘The perfect modern-day whodunit. A cracking read full of hilarious insights into the Big Brother phenomenon’
The Mirror

 

 

 

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Black Swan • Modern fiction
Publication Date: 01/07/2002 • 384 pages • 198 x 127 mm • ISBN: 0552999458
Territory: World All Languages • EAN: 9780552999458

 

 

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Ben Elton’s career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past twenty years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he is the writer of such TV hits as The Young Ones, Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line. Most recently he has written the BBC series Blessed on the subject of young parenthood.

Elton has written three musicals, The Beautiful Game, We Will Rock You and Tonight’s the Night and three West End plays. His internationally bestselling novels include The First Casualty, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous and High Society.

He wrote and directed the successful film Maybe Baby based on his novel Inconceivable starring Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson.

   
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