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Cocaine Nights by J G Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Snort up "Cocaine Nights". It's disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock' Will Self Five people die in an unexplained house fire in the Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, an exclusive enclave for the rich, retired British, centred on the thriving Clu ...Show more
Day Of Creation by Ballard, J G
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
'Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact' William Boyd In parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by a bulldozer and ...Show more
Extreme Metaphors by J. G. Ballard
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard's greatest interviews. After a morning's writing J.G. Ballard sometimes found himself with company. Latterly, friends and interviewers came to his Shepperton home, the same home from which Ballard had observed the rising suburban ...Show more
Hello America by J. G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A terrifying vision of the future from one of the twentieth century's most renowned writers - J. G. Ballard, author of 'Empire of the Sun' and 'Crash'. Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth-century America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, an expedition from Europe returns to the des ...Show more
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo modern classic
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control -- now reissued in new cover style. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are he ...Show more
Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard, which asks could Consumerism turn into Facism? A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparently, but a madman with a rifle. Or not, as he is mysteriously (and quickly) set free without charge. One of the victims is the father of Richard Pea ...Show more
Millennium People by J.G. Ballard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes. When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among th ...Show more
Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton - An Autobiography by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life. 'Miracles of Life' takes us from the vibrant surroundings of p ...Show more
The Atrocity Exhibition - Annotated by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics
The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. The central character's dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown. Seek ...Show more
The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo modern classic
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns into crystal -- now reissued in new cover style. Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed ...Show more
The Drought by J. G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Paladin Bks.
With a new introduction by M. John Harrison and a striking new cover design from the artist Stanley Donwood, this acclaimed cult novel sees human existence threatened by devastating climate change. Water. Man's most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial d ...Show more
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun', reissued here with a new introduction from Martin Amis. Fluctuations in solar radiation have melted the ice caps, sending the planet into a n ...Show more