About the Book
If you had one chance to change history...Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill?
In Time and Time Again, international best-selling author Ben Elton takes readers on a thrilling journey through early 20th-Century Europe.
It's the first of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.
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?
About the Author :
BEN ELTON is one of Britain's most provocative and entertaining writers. From celebrity to climate change, from the First World War to the end of the world, his books give his unique perspective on some of the most controversial topics of our time. He has written fourteen major European bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, The First Casualty and Two Brothers. He is married with three children and lives in Western Australia.
Review :
Beyond brilliant! Ben Elton puts his unique stamp on time travel and the result is pure magic. A thrilling, original, and unforgettable ride of a novel, and one of the best books I've read in a very long time. Susanna Kearsley, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author
A fascinating novel, rich with historical detail and vivid, memorable characters. "What historical event would you change" is a classic conundrum of science fiction, but Elton tackles the question with originality and unpredictable twists that will delight fans of time travel and historical fiction alike. Strongly recommended. Rysa Walker, author of the Chronos Files series
"Thought provoking and captivating, this is a novel for fans who love Stephen King s 11/22/63 (2011), Kate Atkinson s Life after Life (2013), and any of the award-winning time-travel hybrids by Connie Willis. A must-read with an awesomely unsettling ending that has very real implications for a modern audience." Booklist (starred)
"Elton's thoroughly entertaining entry in the time-travel genre gives readers a dashing leading man trotting the globe on his secret mission to a historical moment fraught with danger, in which every choice can have unintended consequences." Library Journal
An entertaining, imaginative and intellectually teasing treatment. The Sydney Morning Herald
Time and Time Again is, of all Elton's great and prophetic books, one of my favorites. He brings his forensic knowledge of the Great War and his miraculously uncynical insight about human nature to bear upon the ancient and vexed question: "What if the Archduke had never been killed?" The answer is as illuminating as it is chilling and makes for an unputdownable read. Emma Thompson, Oscar-winning screenwriter
An absolute page turner. The historical perspective (both real and imagined) is forensically astute and the narrative thrillingly inventive. Ben Elton has remained England's secret too long, it is time America discovered him. Andrew Lloyd Webber
As a writer, Ben Elton is a fizzing delight. Hugh Laurie
Time and Time again is an exceptional thriller. Darkly comic, richly humane, and seriously entertaining. The final twist is spine chilling. Sir Kenneth Branagh
A clever time-slip novel with such a page-turning tangle of intrigue that you'll never be able to second-guess where the story is heading. Woman Magazine (UK)
Stanton's derring-do is diverting fun but the book's real strength happens to be both the calm-before-the-storm historical detail and the arresting vision of a dystopian future 'where love is treason ... and every person in the world is an ant, a drone, a robot'. The Australian
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Beyond brilliant! Ben Elton puts his unique stamp on time travel and the result is pure magic. A thrilling, original, and unforgettable ride of a novel, and one of the best books I've read in a very long time. "Susanna Kearsley, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author"
A fascinating novel, rich with historical detail and vivid, memorable characters. "What historical event would you change" is a classic conundrum of science fiction, but Elton tackles the question with originality and unpredictable twists that will delight fans of time travel and historical fiction alike. Strongly recommended. "Rysa Walker, author of the Chronos Files series"
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"""Thought provoking and captivating, this is a novel for fans who love Stephen King s "11/22/63" (2011), Kate Atkinson s "Life after Life" (2013), and any of the award-winning time-travel hybrids by Connie Willis. A must-read with an awesomely unsettling ending that has very real implications for a modern audience."" " "Booklist "(starred)
"Elton's thoroughly entertaining entry in the time-travel genre gives readers a dashing leading man trotting the globe on his secret mission to a historical moment fraught with danger, in which every choice can have unintended consequences." "Library Journal"
An entertaining, imaginative and intellectually teasing treatment. "The Sydney Morning Herald"
"Time and Time Again "is, of all Elton's great and prophetic books, one of my favorites. He brings his forensic knowledge of the Great War and his miraculously uncynical insight about human nature to bear upon the ancient and vexed question: "What if the Archduke had never been killed?" The answer is as illuminating as it is chilling and makes for an unputdownable read. "Emma Thompson, Oscar-winning screenwriter"
An absolute page turner. The historical perspective (both real and imagined) is forensically astute and the narrative thrillingly inventive. Ben Elton has remained England's secret too long, it is time America discovered him. "Andrew Lloyd Webber"
As a writer, Ben Elton is a fizzing delight. "Hugh Laurie"
Time and Time again is an exceptional thriller. Darkly comic, richly humane, and seriously entertaining. The final twist is spine chilling. "Sir Kenneth Branagh"
A clever time-slip novel with such a page-turning tangle of intrigue that you'll never be able to second-guess where the story is heading. "Woman Magazine (UK)"
Stanton's derring-do is diverting fun but the book's real strength happens to be both the calm-before-the-storm historical detail and the arresting vision of a dystopian future 'where love is treason ... and every person in the world is an ant, a drone, a robot'. "The Australian""
Stanton's derring-do is diverting fun but the book's real strength happens to be both the calm-before-the-storm historical detail and the arresting vision of a dystopian future 'where love is treason and every person in the world is an ant, a drone, a robot'.
In among the flagrant absurdities, the mind-bending talk of parallel universes and space-time vacuums, and Stanton's dramatic attempts to get back to the future, we find pertinent ethical questions that cover alternative-scenario ''what ifs'' and the ethics of collateral damage. "The Australian"
An entertaining, imaginative and intellectually teasing treatment. "The Sydney Morning Herald"
"Time and Time Again "is, of all Elton's great and prophetic books, one of my favorites. He brings his forensic knowledge of the Great War and his miraculously uncynical insight about human nature to bear upon the ancient and vexed question: "What if the Archduke had never been killed?" The answer is as illuminating as it is chilling and makes for an unputdownable read. "Emma Thompson, Oscar-winning screenwriter"
A clever time-slip novel with such a page-turning tangle of intrigue that you'll never be able to second-guess where the story is heading. "Woman Magazine (UK)""
