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Cocaine Nights by J G Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: Modern 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
Crash by J G Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
The definitive cult, post-modern novel - a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism. When Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the ...Show more
Day Of Creation by Ballard, J G
7.99 AUD
22.99 (65% off)
Category: Modern 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
Empire Of The Sun by J G Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Based o ...Show more
Empire of the Sun (Telling Stories) by J. G. Ballard
17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Reprinted as part of the Perennial Collection of Prizewinners, Bestsellers and Modern Classics. The heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life ...Show more
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: Modern 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
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a new masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard which asks, could Consumerism turn into Facism ? Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel, is driving out to Brooklands, a motorway town on the M25. A few weeks earlier his father was fatally wounded at the Metro-Centre ...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
9.99 AUD
22.99 (56% off)
Category: Biography
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
Super-Cannes by J G Ballard
24.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this reissue featuring a new introduction by Ali Smith. A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and Jane Sinclair when they arrive in Eden-Olympia, a high-tech business park in the hills above Cannes. Jane is to work a ...Show more
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
9.99 AUD
19.99 (50% off)
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
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