Welcome to the high-rise, a brand-new way of living designed for a modern world. Stretching forty floors into the sky, residents have everything they could wish for – from the brash filmmaker at the bottom to the lauded architect himself at the top. But when modern man of medicine Dr Robert Laing moves in, his grip on reason is soon tested to breaking point. As the foundations of civilisation itself begin to crumble, cocktail parties give way to brutal raids and once-luxurious amenities become arenas for violence in this unsettling orgy of barbarity and primal chaos.

‘Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind.’ Martin Amis, New Statesman

‘Ballard’s finest novel … a triumph’ The Times

'One of the most blackly visionary of writers ... weird, improbable and sensational, and invariably original' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control -- now reissued in new cover style. / J.G. Ballard has been at the forefront of modern British fiction for over three decades, achieving remarkable critical acclaim and commercial success / His work ranges from the hugely popular Empire of the Sun, based on his experiences in a Japanese POW camp, via experimental novels such as Crash, a controversial tale of sex and cars, to unnerving visions of worlds gone wrong, as in his most recent novel, Cocaine Nights, in which an idyllic retirement home in Spain hides a secret world of crime, drugs and illicit sex / First published in 1975, High-Rise is one of his most admired novels -- an alarming vision of the near future -- now being reissued in Perennial as part of a repackaging of the Ballard backlist / Competition: Philip K Dick, Martin Amis, Will Self, Ray Bradbury

• J. G. Ballard was at the forefront of modern British fiction for over three decades, achieving remarkable critical acclaim and commercial success. He has a large and very dedicated fanbase.

• First published in 1975, High-Rise is one of his most admired novels – an alarming vision of the near future.

• It will be given a stunning new cover treatment and reissued as part of an ongoing update of the J. G. Ballard series style, along with a fantastic new introduction by Ned Beauman.

• All-star film adaptation directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Tom Hiddleston being made.

• ‘Empire of the Sun’, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, was made into a film by Steven Spielberg. ‘Crash’ was also later made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg.

Competition: The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman; Crash; Annihilation; The Dispossessed; Nineteen Eighty-Four; Steppenwolf; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Ned Beauman; Philip K Dick; Angela Carter; Jeff VanderMeer; Ursula K Le Guin; Martin Amis; Will Self; George Orwell; Franz Kafka; Hunter S. Thompson; John Le Carre