From the reviews of Kingdom Come:

   

‘A singular combination of the eerily familiar, the faintly preposterous and the utterly compelling, all leavened with Ballard’s characteristic deadpan humour’

Telegraph magazine

   

‘Ballard’s vision is scary and utterly real … Compelling’

DAVID FLUSFEDER, FT magazine

   

‘J.G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come is a dyspeptic vision of a dystopian Britain that has already arrived. He is a close observer of our national malaise: indiscriminate consumerism combined with a sense of entitlement, and therefore of resentment’

ANTHONY DANIELS, Spectator Books of the Year

   

‘A futurist whodunit, whose topsy-turvy logic unsettles … [Ballard] is on tip-top form. No one else writes with such enchanted clarity or strange power’

Scotsman

   

‘[An] important, challenging, justly furious novel’

Independent

   

‘Kingdom Come is a worthy addition to an extraordinary body of work. It is impossible to read one of J.G. Ballard’s books and not to marvel at his style and ability to capture the times in which we live. His writing has been a source of excitement and inspiration to me since I was reading library books under the covers by the light of a battery torch’

LOUISE WELSH, author of The Cutting Room

   

‘Ballard is the supreme literary outlaw, a maverick whose strange imagination combines surrealist lunacy with a prophet’s vision … [Kingdom Come is] a subversive and highly political book, Ballard exposing not only his society but his time … As he has throughout his career, J.G. Ballard has written another prophetic tale of our sickly epoch, for us to ponder’

Irish Times

   

‘Ballard has a wonderfully honed sardonic tone and a great sense of irony which works brilliantly with this subject’

Irish Independent

   

‘A chilling dystopian thriller … [Ballard’s] portrayal of London is mesmeric. You read this novel for his prescient vision, his acute insights and his shards of wit’

Tatler