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The Book of Guilt
A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 2025Set in a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, a major new novel from the acclaimed and internationally-bestselling author of Pet.
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Empire of the Sun
The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester.
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High-Rise
From the author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control.
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Seveneves
The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction President Barack Obama’s summer reading choice
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The Doors of Perception
And Heaven and HellIn 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed.
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Crash
The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism – reissued with an introduction from Zadie Smith.
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The Drowned World
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.
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Super-Cannes
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.
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Il condominio
Nella periferia di Londra, in una zona rispettabile e residenziale, sorge un altissimo condominio costruito secondo le tecnologie più avanzate. Dotato com'è di palestre, piscine, parrucchieri e negozi di ogni genere, sembra invitare gli abitanti a non uscire, a non badare al mondo caotico e impreciso che c'è là fuori. E così accade. I residenti si abituano alla comoda modernità che li circonda, almeno finché una serie di black-out e cortocircuiti lascia uno spiraglio aperto alla violenza. Nell'arco di pochissimo tempo, la pettinata borghesia del palazzo rivela il suo vero volto. E mentre il condominio inizia a strutturarsi secondo una rigida gerarchia sociale che vede i meno abbienti sotto e i più ricchi sopra, emergono bande rivali pronte a conquistare con la forza i punti strategici del grattacielo e affermare la propria superiorità. Ballard firma un romanzo tesissimo, subito divenuto di culto, in cui mostra il rovescio del progresso e la bruttura nascosta dietro convenevoli e cordialità. Ma Il condominio è anche una straordinaria lettura del presente, una metafora agghiacciante sul disagio che striscia sotto la pelle della nostra società. "In un certo senso, la vita nel grattacielo aveva cominciato ad assomigliare a quella del mondo esterno: le stesse crudeltà e violenza celate entro una serie di cortesi convenzioni." Gli anni settanta, il boom edilizio, grattacieli che si alzano sempre più su, vite umane che si affastellano una sopra l'altra, un piano dopo l'altro, a centinaia. Ballard osserva i segni del mondo che corre e ce li restituisce in tutta la loro crudezza spietata. Un libro che capovolge il mito del progresso e mette a nudo i meccanismi perversi dell'animo umano. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Charles Platt (Author)
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New Worlds (Magazine)
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine which was first published professionally in 1946. For 25 years it was widely considered the leading science fiction magazine in Britain, publishing 201 issues up to 1971. Since 1971 the name of "New Worlds" has been kept alive with a series of original anthologies and a few magazine-like publications; these totalled 21 by 1997. Throughout the 1950s New Worlds was similar in editorial policy and look to Astounding Science Fiction, publishing authors including Brian Aldiss and J. G. Ballard. It was edited until early 1964 by John Carnell. At that point the magazine changed radically. Edited by Michael Moorcock from Vol. 48, No. 142, May-June 1964, it still at first was published as a cheaply-printed paperback, from Vol. 51, No. 173, July, 1967 as a large format magazine. It quickly embraced the so called New Wave of science fiction, publishing material that proved to be controversial.
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War Fever
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. War Fever is a collection of short stories by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1990 by Collins.James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 - 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction. His best-known books are Crash (1973), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, and the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984), made into a film by Steven Spielberg, based on Ballard's boyhood in the International Settlement and internment by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War.
€ 136,00