By Ben Elton Simon & Schuster. 298 pages. £5.99
Play currently running at the Apollo theatre in London's West End.
Ben Elton's fourth novel (adapted to make his third play) is - like his work on TV's Blackadder - a very funny, very foul-mouthed analysis of some important themes, with arguments that are often very close to Christian apologetic.
'Nobody could tell it straight any more because there was no straight to tell. Every group, be it defined racially, financially, geographically, sexually, by religion or by choice of knitwear, had its own truth. And that truth was diametrically opposed to everyone else's truth. More than that, it was threatened by everyone else's truth (p.217).
