Batchelor Boys Gridlock Gasping Silly Cow

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Stark has more money than God and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. Whats more, they know the Earth is dying. Deep in Western Australia, where the Aboriginals used to milk the trees, a planet-sized plot takes shape. Some green freaks pick up the scent. A Pommie poseur, a brain-fried Vietnam Vet, Aboriginals who lost their land. not much against a conspiracy that controls society. But EcoAction isnt in society; it just lives in the same place, along with the cockroaches.

If youre facing the richest and most disgusting conspiracy in history, you have to do more than stick up two fingers and say peace. This was Ben Eltons first novel, and sold massively in Britain and Australia. It was reprinted 23 times in its first year of publication, and sold over a million worldwide.

Priced at ?4. 99, the ISBN number is 0 751 501 999 and is now printed by Warner Books.

You can have it delivered anywhere in the world via Bookpages.

Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice.

How did it come to this? How did the ultimate freedom machine end up paralysing us all? How did we end up driving to our own funeral, in somebody elses gravy train? Deborah and Geoffrey know, but they have transport problems of their own, and anyway, whoever it was that murdered the city can just as easily murder them. Reviews of GRIDLOCK Brilliant. the comedy sometimes achieves Tom Sharpe levels of outrage and the thrills sometimes match Alfred Hitchcock for malign invention. somewhere under the stage suit there may be a Booker candidate. - Richard Heller, Mail On Sunday He combines passionate espousal of a cause with the machine-gun narration of a stand-up comic, peppered with good jokes and with the energetically managed, funny and violent action of a manic strip cartoon. - Ned Sherrin, Evening Standard Perfect fodder for the politically-correct holidaymaker: Time Out Leaves you wondering why our more up-market novelists can never be bothered to write about something as obviously important, topical and politically resonant as the nightmarish growth of the motor industry. - The Guardian The ISBN number is 0751510114, and published by Warner Books.

Gasping (1990) From the backnote of the book.

Lockheart Industries are making senior money. If God wanted to buy into their stock, hed have to think twice and talk to his people. They have a profit curve wound so far round the room it looks like a Blue Peter Christmas Appeal.

But theyre bored, they want more. New ideas, new products. Thats when someone discovers Suck and Blow. The marketing phenomenon of the decade has arrived! Designer air! Perrier for the nostrils!

But when the world starts gasping, only the biggest suckers survive. Reviews of GASPING A poisonously funny morality play. a remarkable debut - Sunday Times A sharp-witted ...

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