Blast From The Past
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  • Published: 15 July 1999
  • ISBN: 9780552998338
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $32.99

Blast From The Past

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8 Nov 2012
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4 Feb 2011
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15 Jul 1999
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A blast of energy and zeitgeist from Britain's foremost comic talent.

It's two fifteen a.m., you're in bed alone and you're woken by the phone.

Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong.

Only someone bad would call at such an hour. Or someone good, but with bad news, which would probably be worse.

You lie there in the darkness and wait for the answer machine to kick in. Your own voice sounds strange as it tells you that nobody is there but that a message can be left.

You feel your heart beat. You listen. And then you hear the one voice in the world you least expect . . . your very own Blast From the Past.
  • Published: 15 July 1999
  • ISBN: 9780552998338
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Ben Elton

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.

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Popcorn
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Time and Time Again
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Praise for Blast From The Past

Only Ben Elton could combine uncomfortable questions about gender politics with a gripping, page-turning narrative and jokes that make you laugh out loud

Tony Parsons, author of Man and Boy

Elton at his most outrageously entertaining

Cosmopolitan

The action is tight and well-plotted, the dialogue is punchy, and the whole thing rolls along so nicely

Guardian

A lively thriller of sexual politics and morality. Elton's best book yet

Elle