Elton uses the Paget family, Paget’s parliamentary assistant, Samantha, with whom he’s having an affair, together with the characters and scenarios in the other threads to make a valid argument for the proposal. He proposes that Parliament legalise all recreational drug use. In the main thread, Labour MP, Peter Paget, is chosen by ballot to introduce a Private Member’s Bill. The story is a series of drug-related, interconnecting tales. Obviously, I chose ‘High Society’ to dip my toe into and I wasn’t disappointed. That’s not necessarily a gauge of quality, as Katie Price was hot on his heels, but it was a good enough reason to read one of his novels, especially as humour is my preferred genre. I read an article that suggested Ben Elton had sold 3 million books in the last decade. He won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for the novel Popcorn.Įlton lives in Perth with his Aussie wife Sophie and three children.

Ben's international bestselling novels include Stark, Inconceivable, Dead Famous and High Society. He has written three plays for the London stage, including the multi-award-winning Popcorn. More recently he has had successes with three hit West End musicals, including the global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has received accolades for his hit TV sit-coms, The Young Ones, Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line. His ground breaking work as a TV stand-up comedian set the (high) standard of what was to follow.

His career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past twenty years. He wanted to be a stagehand at the local theatre, but instead did A-Level Theatre Studies and studied drama at Manchester University in 1977. The youngest of four, he went to Godalming Grammar school, joined amateur dramatic societies and wrote his first play at 15. Ben Elton was born on, in Catford, South London.

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