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Extreme Metaphors by J. G. Ballard
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard's greatest interviews. After a morning's writing J.G. Ballard sometimes found himself with company. Latterly, friends and interviewers came to his Shepperton home, the same home from which Ballard had observed the rising suburban ...Show more
Extreme Metaphors by J. G. Ballard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J. G. Ballard's 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 talent - always surprising, frequently prescient. Such a ...Show more
Hello America by J. G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A terrifying vision of the future from one of the twentieth century's 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 later, an expedition from Europe returns to the des ...Show more
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
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 by J G Ballard
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on enemy floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create ...Show more
Kingdom Come by J. G. Ballard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard, which asks could Consumerism turn into Facism? A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparently, but a madman with a rifle. Or not, as he is mysteriously (and quickly) set free without charge. One of the victims is the father of Richard Pea ...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
$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
Miracles of Life : Shanghai to Shepperton - an autobiography by J. G. Ballard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'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. In the intervening chapters Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed ...Show more
RUSHING TO PARADISE by BALLARD J.G.
$19.99 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
Super-Cannes by J G Ballard
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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