Super-Cannes

Author: J.G. Ballard

A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this reissue featuring a new introduction by Ali Smith.A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and Jane Sinclair when they arrive in Eden-Olympia, a high-tech business park in the hills above Cannes. Jane is to work as a doctor for those who live in this ultra-modern workers’ paradise. Bu….Read More

15 Books Similar to Super-Cannes

Vernon God Little

Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico… Continue Reading Posted in: Australian, Authors, Drugs, Humorous Stories, Literary Fiction

Cocaine Nights

‘Snort up “Cocaine Nights”. It’s disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock’ Will SelfFive people die in an unexplained house fire in the… Continue Reading Posted in: British, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, English Fiction, Murder

Kingdom Come

A vision of the superhero universe, Elseworlds. It's judgement day, and war is about to be waged between superheroes old and new, one that will determine the fate of the… Continue Reading Posted in: Comic Strip Characters, Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novels, Etc.), Graphic Novels England 1997, Science Fiction Comic Books, Science Fiction Graphic Novels, Strips

Dead Air

In this new edition, the original topics have been brought up to date, added to and elaborated upon: Abbreviations, for example, now includes an essential array of chat room acronyms;… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Manners And Customs

Fatherland

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Germany Berlin, History

Concrete Island

A 35-year-old architect is driving home from his London office when his car swerves and crashes onto a traffic island lying below three converging motorways. Uninjured, he climbs the embankment… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary British Fiction, Contemporary Urban Fiction, English, English Fiction, Science Fiction, Survival

Espedair Street

Daniel Weir was a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe he still is. At 31 he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success.… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction In English, Rock Musicians

The Man in the High Castle

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here (2007 Modern Classics edition) and here (2001 Modern Classics edition). A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Authors, Science Fiction, United States

The Atrocity Exhibition

A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. This edition includes explanatory notes from the author.The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern… Continue Reading Posted in: Experimental Fiction, Literary Fiction, Neurasthenia

The Beach

The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop on the backpacker trail. On Richard's first night there a fellow traveller slits his wrists, leaving Richard a map to "the Beach".The… Continue Reading Posted in: Beach Travel, Fiction, Sea Adventures Fiction, Thailand, Travelers

Walking on Glass

Graham Park is in love. But Sara ffitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction In English, Man Woman Relationships, Mystery Romance, Psychological Literary Fiction

Empire Of The Sun

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… Continue Reading Posted in: 1939 1945, Boys, English Fiction, Historical Chinese Fiction, Movie Tie-In Fiction, World War

Crash

The cult status of Crash has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau… Continue Reading Posted in: English, English Fiction, Horror Literature & Fiction, Psychology, Science Fiction

Leave a Reply