The first two volumes of the series which has reached to 2022. Festschrifts of sorts: chronology, bibliography, two interviews with family members ('Miracle Father', 'Memories of Life'), one by the subject, and thirty-seven other pieces, copies of the five famous ‘Atrocity Exhibition’ advertisements Ballard made for ‘Ambit’ magazine, a new Ballard essay, a 1980 prose-poem called ‘Crystal of the Sea’, discovered in 2013 as the foreword to a Japanese photo book, an in-depth analysis of the first two manuscript pages of ‘Crash’ by British Library archivist Chris Beckett – the pages are reproduced here for the first time – plus Bernard Sigaud’s recent finding of the original J.G. Ballard English-language preface to the Danish edition of ‘The Atrocity Exhibition’, long considered lost and reprinted here with Sigaud’s history of the elusive ‘Forod’; many illustrations, contributors include: Iain Sinclair, David Pringle, Ana Barrado, Dan Mitchell, Pippa Tandy, and Paul Green. Volume 1, 200pp, volume 2, 300pp.
