Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
An unreliable narrator, exiled on the coast, looks back on a book he may never have written. On a walk down the A13 from Aldgate Pump to Southend he acquires a package left by a missing woman - a package of stories that anticipate his quest....more details Format:Hardback Pages:480
'Crazy, dangerous, prophetic' - Angela Carter. In "Downriver", Iain Sinclair traces the ruins of Margaret Thatcher's reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what's left of London's river life. The Thames may still flow through the heart of the capital...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
The Thames may still flow through London, but life along its shores has dramatically changed. In Downriver, Iain Sinclair traces the ruins of Thatcher's reign...more details Format:Paperback Pages:407
The mad, wonderful, hallucinatory and physical prose of Clare finds new expression in Sinclair's deep-digging fiction of biography where memoir...more details Format:Hardback Pages:384
A writer, who has lived for years in London, reluctantly acknowledges his growing obsession with the Ewyas Valley on the border of England and Wales. Commissioned to write about Walter Savage Landor's disastrous attempt to set up a senatorial estate around Llanthony Abbey...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Iain Sinclair
ISBN:9781862070189
A writer, who has lived for years in London, reluctantly acknowledges his growing obsession with the Ewyas Valley on the border of England and Wales. Commissioned to write about Walter Savage Landor's disastrous attempt to set up a senatorial estate around Llanthony Abbey...more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
'A book about London; in other words, a book about everything' - Peter Ackroyd, "The Times". Walking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Iain Sinclair
ISBN:9781862070929
Sinclair also meets and drags in his wake some of the artists, writers and film-makers who represent, for him, an interesting alternative aesthetic of London at the end of the century. Iain Sinclair is the author of "Downriver"...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
Iain Sinclair's record of his obsessive wanderings through London affords a strange new perspective on the city's culture and politics. Sinclair is brilliantly bad-tempered about the invasions of power and money into the historical patterns of the city and hilariously sharp in his satire of official culture...more details Format:Paperback
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Iain Sinclair
ISBN:9781862075474
In this volume Iain Sinclair sets out to map the vast stretch of urban settlement outside London bounded by the M25. His long journeys - from the Lea Valley to Uxbridge...more details Format:Hardback Pages:500
A brilliant voyage of discovery into the deeply unfashionable fringes of London. 'It isn't often that one reads a book and is convinced that it's an instant classic...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
Inspired by the churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor, this collection of prose and verse explores the contemporary city and the historical and mythical patterns that it hides. Also included in this edition is the author's series of texts on the mythology of myth and place...more details Format:Paperback Pages:300
Lud Heat, a great fusion of prose and verse, is an exploration of a contemporary city and the historical and mythical patterns that it hides. The churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Iain Sinclair
ISBN:9781862075030
Todd Sileen, a rage-driven cripple, ekes out a living in a spectacularly wasted East London borough. Radon Daughters is a comic and alarming epic about a city and a society shredded by random violence and uncontrollable compulsions.
"Sinclair is an authentic visionary. Only at the end of the book...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Iain Sinclair
ISBN:9781862072084
Radon Daughters is a comic and alarming epic about a city and a society torn by random violence and uncontrollable compulsions. Todd Sileen, a rage-driven cripple...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Iain Sinclair
ISBN:9780141014845
This is a novel about London - its past, its people, its underbelly and its madness. 'In this extraordinary work, Sinclair combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
'Sinclair's dark, psycho-geographical exhumations of London scribe a semi-mythical underbelly of malcontents, manic bibliophiles and losers. Subterranean pubs and their snugs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:210
Reflecting on the nature of fiction and history, this novel combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the Victorian imagination with the story of a posse of seedy book dealers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:210