Monocle culture editor Robert Bound joins John and Andy to discuss J.G. Ballard's Spanish set thriller Cocaine Nights. Also, The Ballard-Bond connection, Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, and the phrase you never want to hear John Mitchinson say in person…

Books mentioned:

J.G. Ballard - Cocaine Nights, Crash, Empire of the Sun, The Atrocity Exhibition, High Rise, The Terminal Beach, Extreme Metaphors, Miracles of Life, Super-Cannes, Millennium People, The Kindness of Women
Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad, Zone One, John Henry Days
Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Paul Beatty - The sellout
Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac
Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express

Other links:

JG Ballard obituary in the Guardian
Atrocity Exhibition by Joy Division (Spotify)
Interview with Jonathan Meades in The White Review
Paris Review interview
Now and again I open Crash. I think, my god, this is horrific
Ballardian website
JG Ballard on Desert Island Discs