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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Identity Crisis
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'Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage.

'A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his already complex investigation is further impeded by the fact that he simply doesn’t ‘get’ a single thing about anything anymore.

'Meanwhile, each day another public figure confesses to having ‘misspoken’ and prostrates themselves before the judgement of Twitter. Begging for forgiveness, assuring the public “that is not who I am”.

'But if nobody is who they are anymore - then who the f**k are we?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Bantam Books , 2019 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 384p.p.
      Note/s:

      • Published 2 April 2019.

      ISBN: 9780593073599, 9780593073582, 9781473508330
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y separately published work icon Live Recording : Ben Elton in Conversation with Shaun Micallef Shaun Micallef (interviewer), 2019 23469307 2019 single work podcast interview

'Bestselling writer Ben Elton is the author of several novels, including his most recent book Identity Crisis. In this live recording of our event, Elton talks to Shaun Micallef about his new comic satire.'  (Production summary)
Britain at Its Wits’ End Malcolm Forbes , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 May 2019; (p. 22)
— Review of Identity Crisis Ben Elton , 2019 single work novel

'Ben Elton’s last two novels saw him harking back to the past, playing it straight in Holocaust drama Two Brothers and serving up thrills in mind-bending adventure Time and Time Again. In earlier novels he took his readers the other way, into all-too-real, environmentally unfriendly dystopian futures.'(Introduction)
Britain at Its Wits’ End Malcolm Forbes , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 May 2019; (p. 22)
— Review of Identity Crisis Ben Elton , 2019 single work novel

'Ben Elton’s last two novels saw him harking back to the past, playing it straight in Holocaust drama Two Brothers and serving up thrills in mind-bending adventure Time and Time Again. In earlier novels he took his readers the other way, into all-too-real, environmentally unfriendly dystopian futures.'(Introduction)
y separately published work icon Live Recording : Ben Elton in Conversation with Shaun Micallef Shaun Micallef (interviewer), 2019 23469307 2019 single work podcast interview

'Bestselling writer Ben Elton is the author of several novels, including his most recent book Identity Crisis. In this live recording of our event, Elton talks to Shaun Micallef about his new comic satire.'  (Production summary)
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