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.

Praise from the UK for Blast from the Past:
The action is tight and well-plotted, the dialogue is punchy, and the whole thing rolls along so nicely.
-- The Guardian
Ben Elton's in top form with this gripping black comedy--a sure-fire hit.
-- New Woman
A lively thriller of sexual politics and morality. Elton's best book yet.
-- Elle
Blast from the Past is Elton at his most outrageously entertaining.
-- Cosmopolitan
Praise from the UK for Blast from the Past:
The action is tight and well-plotted, the dialogue is punchy, and the whole thing rolls along so nicely.
-- The Guardian
Ben Elton's in top form with this gripping black comedy--a sure-fire hit.
-- New Woman
A lively thriller of sexual politics and morality. Elton's best book yet.
-- Elle
Blast from the Past is Elton at his most outrageously entertaining.
-- Cosmopolitan

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 (out in Black Swan paperback in April 2006) 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.