Hints and tips:
...She namechecks “Iain M Banks’s Consider Phlebas, the first title in his Culture series, which can fetch around £1,750 for an inscribed copy, JG Ballard’s The Drowned World, which retails at around £3,000...
...Dobson OBEThe Queen’s College, Oxford, UK Dr Gari P OwenAnnwvyn Solutions, Bromley, Kent, UK...
...When the young JG Ballard moved to postwar Britain, what he found was “Bucharest with a hangover”. An “exhausted ferret-like people” occupied a “wasteland” of “rubble” and “ration books”....
...Brain Test Britain was a groundbreaking experiment designed by Professor Clive Ballard at Kings College, London, and Dr Adrian Owen at the University of Cambridge involving 67,000 people....
...Ballard’s words rang through my mind as I read journalist Lucy Mangan’s trip down memory lane, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading....
...In the 1960s and 1970s he edited New Worlds magazine, publishing authors such as JG Ballard and Thomas Pynchon. What was your childhood or earliest ambition? To write and edit....
...“Yes, that’s Ballard, isn’t it? Straight there.” But, he observes, the worst may be yet to come. “It’s thoroughly depressing that Ballard’s getting it so right....
...Hiddleston hints at great potential for a much darker side of his own screen persona in Ben Wheatley’s much-anticipated High-Rise, a long-gestating adaptation of JG Ballard’s 1975 novel....
...“We plan to open 50 centres across the US over the next three years,” Dr Fotuhi said. “Our first three centres were filled as soon as we opened them, so we are confident that the demand is there.”...
...Clive Ballard of King’s College, London, says: “There are 1,760 mid-stage trials for cancer and 17 for Alzheimer’s. People get demoralised about failure but there hasn’t been enough volume....
...The adaptation of JG Ballard’s book about life in Japan-occupied China during the second world war was shot in Shanghai. It’s an experience the 37-year-old Bale now finds difficult to relate to....
...Like Peake, Ballard’s childhood was spent in China and his apparently dark vision was also full of perceptive wit....
...“Clearly both pathologies are important in the disease,” said Dr Ballard, “but I think research has perhaps been skewed too much towards the plaques.”...
...One of JG Ballard’s underrated novels is called The Kindness of Women and I feel it’s time for a book about the kindness of golfers....
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