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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
Crash by J G Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: 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
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 by J G Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classi
The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.Shanghai, 1941--a city aflame ...Show more
Empire of the Sun (Collins Modern Classics) by J G Ballard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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..Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in ...Show more
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
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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
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
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
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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