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WRECKED
From the author of the international bestseller ‘Wetlands’, a raw and taboo-breaking novel of sex, death, and marriage.
Publication Date: UK 25th Apr 2013
MAYA’S NOTEBOOK
From the author of ‘The House of Spirits’ – teenage Maya is in trouble. She’s an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all go so wrong?
Publication Date: UK 23rd Apr 2013
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EXTREME METAPHORS
Release date: 27th Sep 2012
Author: J. G. Ballard
A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.
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EMPIRE OF THE SUN [ePub edition]
Release date: 28th Jun 2012
Author: J. G. Ballard
The heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.
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HELLO AMERICA [ePub edition]
Release date: 24th Jun 2010
Author: J. G. Ballard
A terrifying vision of the future from one of our most renowned writers – J G Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun and Crash.
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THE DROWNED WORLD [ePub edition]
Release date: 24th Jun 2010
Author: J. G. Ballard
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.
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THE DAY OF CREATION [ePub edition]
Release date: 24th Jun 2010
Author: J. G. Ballard
An unforgettable voyage of the imagination from the bestselling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.
THE DAY OF CREATION
Release date: 2nd Apr 2010
Author: J. G. Ballard
An unforgettable voyage of the imagination from the bestselling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.
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THE DROUGHT [ePub edition]
Release date: 29th Oct 2009
Author: J. G. Ballard
By the bestselling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes – the world is threatened by dramatic climate change in this highly acclaimed and influential novel.
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THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION [ePub Annotated edition]
Release date: 15th Oct 2009
Authors: J. G. Ballard William Burroughs J. G. Ballard
First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, who has supplied explanatory notes for this new edition.
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CRASH [ePub edition]
Release date: 17th Apr 2009
Author: J. G. Ballard
The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism.
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CONCRETE ISLAND [ePub edition]
Release date: 20th Mar 2009
Author: J. G. Ballard
A chilling novel about our modern world, from the author of Empire of the Sun and Crash.
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MIRACLES OF LIFE [ePub edition]
Release date: 4th Sep 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
'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.
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KINGDOM COME [ePub edition]
Release date: 4th Sep 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard which asks, could consumerism turn into Facism?
CONCRETE ISLAND
Release date: 1st Sep 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
A chilling novel about our modern world, from the author of Empire of the Sun and Crash.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
Release date: 1st Sep 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
J.G. Ballard – author of Crash and Empire of the Sun – explores the extremes of ecology and feminism in this highly acclaimed modern fable.
MIRACLES OF LIFE
Release date: 1st Sep 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard has been, 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’, in this revelatory autobiography he charts the course of his astonishing life.
HELLO AMERICA
Release date: 1st Sep 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
A terrifying vision of the future from one of our most renowned writers – J G Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun and Crash.
THE UNLIMITED DREAM COMPANY
Release date: 4th Feb 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
From the author of The Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights the story of suburban London transformed into an exotic dreamworld.
MILLENNIUM PEOPLE
Release date: 4th Feb 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.
THE CRYSTAL WORLD
Release date: 4th Feb 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
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.
THE DROUGHT
Release date: 4th Feb 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
By the bestselling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes – the world is threatened by dramatic climate change in this highly acclaimed and influential novel.
THE DROWNED WORLD
Release date: 4th Feb 2008
Author: J. G. Ballard
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.
KINGDOM COME
Release date: 2nd Jul 2007
Author: J. G. Ballard
A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard, which asks could Consumerism turn into Facism?
COCAINE NIGHTS
Release date: 4th Sep 2006
Author: J. G. Ballard
The remarkable bestseller from the author of Crash – Cocaine Nights is an engrossing mystery and unnerving vision of a society enjoying a life of unlimited leisure.
SUPER-CANNES
Release date: 4th Sep 2006
Author: J. G. Ballard
A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this extraordinary bestseller from the author of Crash and Cocaine Nights.
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THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION [Annotated edition]
Release date: 4th Sep 2006
Author: J. G. Ballard
A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. This edition features explanatory notes from the author.
HIGH-RISE
Release date: 4th Sep 2006
Author: J. G. Ballard
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control.
THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES: Volume 1
Release date: 4th Sep 2006
Author: J. G. Ballard
First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.
THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES: Volume 2
Release date: 4th Sep 2006
Author: J. G. Ballard
The second in a two volume collection of acclaimed short stories by the author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.
Harper Perennial Modern Classics — EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Release date: 20th Feb 2006
Author: J. G. Ballard
From the master of dystopia, comes his heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.