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J G Ballard

J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller ‘Empire of the Sun’ won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg.
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Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 Complete Short Stories: Volume 1
With sixteen novels over four decades - from The Drowned World in...
Complete Short Stories: Volume 2 Complete Short Stories: Volume 2
With sixteen novels over four decades - from The Drowned World in...
Concrete Island Concrete Island
Robert Maitland, a 35 year-old architect, is driving home...