Beneath the civilised surface of the retired community of Estrella de Mar lies a secret world of crime, drugs & illicit sex. Events are orchestrated by a Pied Piper figure whose influences are spreading fast.

From the master of dystopia, comes his heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.

Now adapted for Radio 4, 'The Drowned World' is a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a foray into the workings of the unconscious mind.

The familiar landscape of the area around Shepperton is transformed when an aircraft crashes into the Thames. Within hours of the pilot's arrival the area is covered in tropical vegetation and people are strangely eroticised.

Super-Cannes follows where our executive super-capitalist dreams utopia must lead and shows us how we might yet escape that dark and violent cul-de-sac. Ballard is the author of Empire of the Sun, Crash and his most recent bestseller, Cocaine Nights

A masterpiece of fiction from J. G. Ballard, which asks could Consumerism turn into Facism?

The world, without rain, is drying up. Rivers are a trickle and we see the shrivelling of the species far from its sources and headed lemming-like for the sea. Time has burst its dams and seeps inside the race-structure with bizarre results.