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....

A chilling novel about our modern world, from the author of Empire of the Sun and Crash....

A violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebellious, unemployed advertising executive, whose father is gunned down by a deranged mental patient....

A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard....

A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of Crash and Super-Cannes....

Within the concealing walls of an elegant 40-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction....

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....

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....

Appearing in audio for the first time, this neglected Ballardian masterpiece promises to be a touchstone for environmentalists the world over....

An underground classic, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau....

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....

The definitive cult, post-modern novel - a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism....

Published in 1991, this semiautobiographical novel is a daring masterpiece. Fifteen-year-old Jim Graham leaves the ruins of postwar Shanghai, only to find that he cannot escape his own obsession with death....

Following the energy crisis of the late 20th century, America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns....

Winner of the Guardian fiction prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize....

Yet again J. G. Ballard’s inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence. A massacre rocks a suburban utopia - 32 adults murdered, and their children missing - in Running Wild....

On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transforming the Sahara into a land of abundance....

When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead....

Millennium People tells the story of David Markham, a psychologist who is searching for the truth behind a bomb that exploded on a Heathrow baggage carousel, killing his ex-wife....

The Heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War....