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High-Rise (film tie-in) by J. G. Ballard
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Coming in March 2016 from acclaimed director Ben Wheatley, a major motion picture adaptation of J. G. Ballard's compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss. ...Show more
Matchbook Classics Box Set by J.g. Ballard; Lorna Sage; Jean-Dominque Bauby; Penelope Fitzgerald; Jonathan Franzen; Hilary Mantel; Alexander Masters; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Tim O'Brien; Annie Proulx
199.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Collected here in a stunning box set, these ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a beautifully redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. In the mid-twentieth century, the matchbox industry was booming. Com ...Show more
Millennium People by J.G. Ballard
22.95 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: Biography & Memoir
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
RUSHING TO PARADISE by BALLARD J.G.
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 albatross from extinction. Her crusade gains widespr ...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 Complete Short Stories: v. 1 by J.G. Ballard
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 final novel 'Kingdom Come' in 2006 - J.G. Ballard ...Show more
The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | 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 Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
22.99 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
The Kindness of Women by J. G. Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The fascinating, and largely autobiographical, sequel to J G Ballard's prize-winning 'Empire of the Sun', that follows Jim to post-war England. 'The Kindness of Women' continues the story of the boy whose life in Japanese-occupied Shaghai was described so memorably in 'Empire of the Sun', it sets those ...Show more
Unlimited Dream Company by BALLARD J G
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Modern Classic Ser. | Reading Level: good
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- in which suburban London is transformed into an exotic dreamworld -- now reissued in new cover style. When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surfa ...Show more
Vermillion Sands - Vintage Future by J. G. Ballard
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Vermilion Sands is a fully automated desert-resort designed to fulfil the most exotic whims of the idle rich, but now languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, solitary impresarios and the remittance men of the artistic and literary world. It is a lair for beachcombers, hange ...Show more