J G Ballard - Böcker

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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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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"Skändlighetsutställningen är en djup och oroande bok. Sexualitetens icke-sexuella rötter undersöks med kirurgisk precision. En bilolycka kan vara mer sexuellt upphetsande än en pornografisk bild. [] Den här boken rör vid sexuella avgrunder s...

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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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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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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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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...

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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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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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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 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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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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A FUTURISTIC COVER - COMES WITH 3D GLASSES! Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. Home to the idle rich it now languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, so...

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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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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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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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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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J. G. Ballard's 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 imaginati...

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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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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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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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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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In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During the search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by one of his bulldozers and water we...

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Within the concealing walls of an elegant tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. In this tale, human society slips into violent reverse as the inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, recreate a wor...

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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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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.'Mirac...

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'Extraordinary' Angela Carter'One of the great war novels of the 20th century' William Boyd'A remarkable journey' Sunday TimesThe heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.Like eve...

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