J G Ballard - Böcker

From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of de...

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A chilling novel that pays twisted homage to Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'. Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman. Robert Maitland, a 35 year-old architect, is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jagu...

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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 an introduction from Martin Amis. All the way down the creek, perched...

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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. Mi...

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J. G. Ballards collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation. J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative for...

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A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of Crash and Super-Cannes, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru. The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator As the protagon...

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"Harsh and ingenious! "High Rise" is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind."--Martin Amis, "New Statesman."

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'This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with honesty and lyricism' Observer The Kindness of Women continues the story of Jim, the young boy whose experiences in Japan...

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From one of the most powerful and original talents in science fiction comes the story of a new world--a strange world where solar radiation fluctuations have melted the polar ice caps, flooding the land and raising the temperature of the atmosphere.

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J.G.Ballard is the author of the novels Crash, Empire of the Sun and Rushing to Paradise. Throughout his career he has also been a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. This book collects together pieces of his journalism, grouped under...

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The classic, heartrending story of a British boys four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. Based on J. G. Ballards own childhood, this is the extraordinary acco...

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Na r Crash publicerades 1973 vann romanen omedelbart la sarnas hja rtan och ma nga kritikers fo rakt. Vissa ansa g att den vittnade om en urartad sexualitet och vettlo sa perversioner, andra ansa g att den fa ngade hur teknologi kunde fo rvandla m...

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Kartotek 4: Jane Bennett - System och ting: Vital materialism och objektorienterad filosofi. J.G. Ballard - Prima Belladonna. Förord av Jesper Olsson. Tanken bakom skriftserien Kartotek är att lyfta fram viktiga teoretiska texter för en nordisk lä...

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A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this reissue featuring an introduction by Ali Smith. People are so immersed in their work they wouldnt notice the end of the world. A high-tech business p...

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Coming in March 2016 from acclaimed director Ben Wheatley, a major motion picture adaptation of J. G. Ballards compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jer...

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First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Empire of the Sun, Crash and Super-Cannes. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With eighteen novels over four decades from The Drowned World in 1962 to his fi...

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The definitive cult, post-modern novel a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism reissued with an introduction from Zadie Smith. After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an ...

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A terrifying vision of the future from one of the twentieth centurys 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 l...

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Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience classics which will endure for generations to come.. Like everything else since the war, ...

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With a new introduction by Deborah Levy and a striking new cover design by the artist Stanley Donwood, Ballards final novel sees consumerism evolve into something even more sinister. A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparen...

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'Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact' William BoydIn 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 wate...

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From J. G. Ballard, author of Crash and Cocaine Nights comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal. Through a leaking of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees metamorphose into eno...

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A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J. G. Ballards greatest interviews. J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. Best known for his controversial bestseller Crash and the memoir Empire of the Sun, he was a writer of unique tale...

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When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights'.Fluctuations in solar radiation have melted the ice caps, sending the planet into a new ...

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J. G. Ballard author of Crash explores the extremes of ecology and feminism in this highly acclaimed modern fable. Newly reissued with an introduction by Rivka Galchen. Dr Barbara Rafferty is a fearless conservationist, determined to save a rare a...

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Snort up Cocaine Nights. Its 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 th...

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Violent rebellion comes to Londons middle classes. Like every obedient professional, I arrived punctually for my appointment with a revolution. When a bomb explosion at Heathrow airport kills psychologist David Markhams ex-wife, he sets out on a j...

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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...

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The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With eighteen novels over four decades - from 'The Drowned World' in...

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'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp.J.G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this...

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