Time and Time Again
Nov 2014 · Random House
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'The best I've read of Elton's many bestsellers' The Times
Imagine a world where no one you have ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps they never will be.
1st June 1914: this is Hugh Stanton's reality. Ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer, he is is quite literally the loneliest man on earth.
Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come.
He knows this because, for him, that century is already history.
Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war.
A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century?
And, if so, could another single bullet save it?
Imagine a world where no one you have ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps they never will be.
1st June 1914: this is Hugh Stanton's reality. Ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer, he is is quite literally the loneliest man on earth.
Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come.
He knows this because, for him, that century is already history.
Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war.
A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century?
And, if so, could another single bullet save it?
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4.4
193 reviews
Kate Charles
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21 February 2015
I quite like Ben Elton - however I fear his writing has become formulaic, eaped in cynisism around pop culture, modern society and the foly of man. Good read to pass the time but no way as punchy or as poignant as previous work (popcorn and dead famous). The themes within a mirrored in a thousand generic hollywood blockbusters. Wouldnt recommend.
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Jordan Woodcock
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4 December 2018
The premise for this book is so good! However i feel that the actual book is decent, with the first half being well paced but the second half too rushed and becoming confusing. If thought out and with a bit more care taken the book could've been in my top five ever books. An interesting read nonetheless.
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Sebastian Cucia
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7 January 2015
It was my first book for this year and reading the book was an adventure, a thrilled recount of what may happen if we don't leave the past behind as it has been written.
About the author
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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