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The heartrending story of British boy Jims four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Filmed by Steven Spielberg. Now available for the first time on CD. Based on J. G. Ballards own childhood, this is the extraordinary account
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, Jeremy Iron
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. . Like everything else since the war, the sk
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 protagonist spi
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 in the
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 an actual
A chilling novel that pays twisted homage to Defoes 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 Jaguar hurtling
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, solitary i
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 enormous je
From the author of Crash and Cocaine Nights comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. 'Living in high-rises required a special type of behavior, one that was acquiescent, restrained, even perhaps slightly mad. A p
Snort up Cocaine Nights. Its disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock Will Self 'One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself.' Nothing is as it seems in the sun-soaked S
A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this reissue featuring an introduction by Ali Smith. People are so immersed in their work they wouldnt notice the end of the world. A high-tech business park lies
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 account of a
Anticipates todays Britain with eerie precision Guardian 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
With a new introduction by M. John Harrison and a striking new cover design from the artist Stanley Donwood, this acclaimed cult novel sees human existence threatened by devastating climate change. Water. Mans most precious commodity is a luxury of the pa
A massacre rocks a suburban utopia-thirty-two adults murdered, and their children missing-in Running Wild, one of Ballard's most dazzlingly subversive works of fiction. "To Ballard, lack of choice . . . is a dangerous state of being. In Running W
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
In the novel that catapulted him to international acclaim upon its publication in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient The Drowned World imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming has melted the ice
In Cocaine Nights, J. G. Ballard stretches the taught canvas of his transgressive vision over the framework of old-fashioned mystery. The setting: the swank Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, where young retirees from Europe's chillier climes bask in
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 t
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 nov
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 1962 to his fina
A special limited edition of J. G. Ballards cult, post-modern and shocking novel I knew that Vaughan could never really die in a car-crash, but would in some way be re-born through those twisted radiator grilles and cascading windshield glass. The Collect
Featuring an introduction by Zadie Smith; "Jim's Desk" and introductory notes by Chris Beckett The short stories "Crash," "Tolerances of the Human Face," and "Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty" by J. G. Balla
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 imaginative force