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

Empire of the sun

Commencé à la fin des années 60, complété et achevé dans les années 90, ce roman-laboratoire traverse tous les livres de l'auteur de Crash, Empire du Soleil, La Bonté des femmes et Super-Cannes - et les contient tous. 
Les stéréotypes nourrissant notre quotidien - la violence, la technologie, la culture de la célébrité qui envahissent désormais sans discrimination les musées, les médias et la rue - sont mis à nu dans ce texte prophétique avec une intensité poétique qui sidèrera le lecteur contemporain. 
Chaque paragraphe de chaque chapitre " expose " une facette de la catastrophe invisible qui disloque notre monde. Les notes, échos ou commentaires par lesquels J.G. Ballard a actualisé son propos initial, font de La Foire aux atrocités un livre aujourd'hui sans équivalent. 
 
Alors que la réalité semble avoir rejoint la fiction imaginée naguère par Ballard, que son influence se fait sentir dans tous les domaines de la création, la parution il y a quelques années en France de l'état final de ce work in progress à lectures multiples avait placé ce " classique moderne " à la place que lui reconnaissait déjà la critique anglo-saxonne : celle du " plus grand auteur anglais contemporain ".

La foire aux atrocités

The second in a two volume collection of acclaimed short stories by the author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.

 JG Ballard is firmly established as one of Britain's most highly regarded and influential novelists. However, during his long career he was also a prolific writer of short stories, many of which show the germination of ideas he used in his longer fiction.

 This, the second book in a two-volume collection, offers a platform from which to view Ballard's other works. Almost all of his novels had their seeds in short stories and this collection provides an extraordinary opportunity to trace the development of one of Britain's most visionary writers.

The Complete Short Stories - Volume 2

A high-security luxury housing estate in the Thames Valley sees a disturbing outbreak of violence in this compelling novella, newly reissued with an introduction from Adam Phillips.

 Pangbourne Village is exclusive, expensive and protected from the outside world by the very latest in security systems. A seeming idyll of family life; the perfect place to bring up a child. So why, in the space of ten minutes early one morning, were the thirty-two adult residents brutally murdered, and all thirteen children abducted? After months of fruitless investigation - and no word of the children or a ransom - the police are mystified. It is only when psychiatrist Richard Greville is called in that the truth behind the massacre gradually becomes clear.

 This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ali Smith, Iain Sinclair, Martin Amis and Ned Beauman) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.

Running Wild

Depuis un demi-siècle, J.G. Ballard a publié vingt-cinq livres de fiction. Deux d'entre eux ont été adaptés au cinéma : Empire du Soleil par Steven Spielberg et Crash par David Cronenberg. Il rassemble aujourd'hui dans Millénaire mode d'emploi le meilleur de ses essais et articles, sur tous les thèmes qui ont nourri son œuvre : cinéma, art, science, littérature, vies des personnages publics, médias de masse, avenir de la société de consommation. On a pu dire, à l'occasion de la reparution de son chef-d'œuvre La Foire aux atrocités, que si Ballard a écrit une littérature d'anticipation - force nous est de la lire à présent comme de la critique sociale. Comment J.G. Ballard a-t-il déchiffré les mutations de notre temps ? On le comprendra en lisant la somme que composent les quatre-vingt-dix chapitres de ce " mode d'emploi du Millénaire ".

Millénaire mode d'emploi

'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 Japanese-occupied Shanghai were described in Empire of the Sun. It follows his return to post-war England, setting his childhood in the context of a lifetime.

 Jim tries, and fails, to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge, then as a trainee RAF pilot in Canada. Having finally settled into happy family life, his world is ripped apart by domestic tragedy. He plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s, an instigator and subject of every aspect of cultural, social and sexual revolution.

 We follow, in all this, the progress of a bruised mind as it tries to make sense of the upheaval around it. Turning conspicuously, as in Empire of the Sun, to the events of his own life, Ballard makes of experience fiction that is frankly startling and, at its most tender, powerfully moving.

 This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including James Lever, Ali Smith, Hari Kunzru and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs.

The Kindness of Women

Le massacre de Pangbourne

A collection of essays and reviews by renowned author J. G. Ballard, spanning over thirty years and covering film, science, art, literature and current affairs.

 The ninety pieces of J. G. Ballard's non-fiction writing collected here for the first time were written between 1962 and 1995. Many touch on themes and obsessions familiar to readers of his fiction; all show the insight, wit and distinctive vision of the modern world that have characterised his work throughout his distinguished career as one of the most important voices in contemporary fiction.

Empire of the sun

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