Author of the Month: Iain Sinclair
Selected by the Bookshop
We’re delighted to announce that our Author of the Month for June is good friend of the shop and incomparable chronicler of London’s hidden histories Iain Sinclair, who celebrates his 80th birthday this month. Although best known for his London writings, his subjects have ranged far more widely, from his native Wales to Peru, and combine poetry, luminous prose, mythology and a frankly frightening erudition to produce a body of work that is utterly unique. Have a look at some of his books here, or come and meet them in person on our dedicated Sinclair table at Bury Place.
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Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs'As detailed and as complex as a historical map, taking the reader hither and thither with no care as to which might be the most direct…
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20pp. Risograph printed by Earthbound Press on acid-free paper. Screen printed wrappers of handmade paper (two variants available), with affixed band. Small format (101 x 122mm). Bound with brass wire. A poem. Edition of 250…
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What was William Blake’s relation with London? And how did this relation shape his poetic visions? In this small and specially designed volume, Iain Sinclair takes the reader on a discursive journey through Blake’s…
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Iain Sinclair, the celebrated author and psycho-geographer, walks back along the blue-grey roads and cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower peninsula. Provoked by the strange and enigmatic series of…
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'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane…
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Poetry. 26pp. Published in an edition of 350 copies. Risograph printed by the Earthbound Press.
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A Gazetteer of Encounters with Local Scribes, Elective Shamen & Unsponsored Keepers of the Sacred Flame.with specially commissioned illustrations by Dave McKeanA UNIQUE COLLABORATION BETWEEN AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ONLY TO BE FOUND AT…
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Iain Sinclair explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route.The completion of the full circle of London Overground provides Iain Sinclair with a new path to walk the shifting territory of the capital. With…
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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…
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A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021‘Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.’ Barry MilesFrom the award-winning author of The Last…
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Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair's sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environsAndrew 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.…
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'A book about London; in other words, a book about everything' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesWalking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries…
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Beautifully written and drawing upon a range of literary, cultural and geographic references, Sinclair follows in the path of the ‘lost’ rivers of London and examines their influence on the visionary literature of the capital.
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London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English' John Lanchester, Daily…
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In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare.In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love,…
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In Ghost Milk Iain Sinclair exposes the dark underbelly of the Olympics 2012 Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a landscape under…
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Downriver is a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair.WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZEThe Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London…
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'A book full of richness, unexpected enticements, short sharp shocks and breathtaking writing' Guardian Welcome to the real, unauthorised London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten. The…
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