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