Books with author J. G Ballard

The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp.One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up our Matchbook Classics’ series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint.Rooted as it is in the author’s own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered, but judged.

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In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an internationally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor.A classic work of cutting-edge fiction, Crash explores both the disturbing implications and horrific possibilities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.

The definitive cult, post-modern novel-a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism.When Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Then he encounters Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, who has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of auto-erotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash-a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity.First published in 1973Crashremains one of the most shocking novels of the second half of the twentieth century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg.Ballard's autobiographyMiracles of Lifewas published in 2008 andExtreme Metaphors, a collection of interviews with the author, is due out in 2012.

SURVIVAL MEANS KEEPING SECRETS, but even the best-kept secrets always have a way of being unlocked. They dream of a better world. They long for a place where the scars don’t need to be hidden. A place where the smiles are not faked, the tears result from happiness, not pain, and where being loved is not a foreign concept. Mostly they dream of a place where they are safe from the abuse endured in their lives. Callie learned early on that survival meant keeping quiet. That is until her best friend convinces her to give the Manor a chance for healing. Between making new friends, attending therapy, and having a safe place to visit, Callie becomes overwhelmed with emotions and feels need to run back to the familiarity of her abusive home. She isn’t the only one with these feelings of insecurity. Everyone in the Manor has secrets of a trauma infused past, including one skeleton that will ultimately tie all the girls together when exposed. Will the Manor prove to be a truly safe place for everyone, including Callie? Can Callie learn to live between two worlds?Finding Safety, the first book in ‘The Secrets We Keep’ series, is a young adult novel dealing with mental health issues. Please note throughout the storylines, several mental health topics such as emotional, sexual, physical, and mental abuse are discussed.