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A Day's Walk Around the Ginger Line

London Overground

City of Disappearances

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Calling Time on the Grand Project

Ghost Milk

A Confidential Report

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'

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His voice is still urgent. If we know what's good for us, we'll listen

Sinclair's is a prolix poetics, an amassing of noun-hives whose compacted wit would make the most lexically dexterous rapper envious

To overlook Sinclair is to ignore one of the most distinctive voices in Britain

Journeys to the End of the Light

On the trail of the American Beats, Iain Sinclair makes a delirious and perhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Olson and Gary Snyder. It is a journey in search of literary ghosts behind mirages of volcanoes and the Old West. In which rumours vie with false memories and unreliable reports to steer our guide from one strange adventure into another. It is an odyssey in which the beginning offers no clues as to where it may end.

In American Smoke, Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats. 
 
On the trail of the American Beats, Iain Sinclair makes a delirious and perhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Olson and Gary Snyder. It is a journey in search of literary ghosts behind mirages of volcanoes and the Old West. In which rumours vie with false memories and unreliable reports to steer our guide from one strange adventure into another. It is an odyssey in which the beginning offers no clues as to where it may end. 
 
'A transatlantic odyssey . . . grippingly haunted' Observer 
 
'A challenging, maddening, fascinating journey . . . enjoy Sinclair's poetic language and subtly warped sense of humour. Rich and engrossing' Metro 
 
'Sit back and feel the invigorating pulse of beautifully crafted prose . . . wonderful' Daily Telegraph 
 
'Iain Sinclair has gone from cult author to national treasure' Robert Macfarlane 
 
Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk.

Iain Sinclair is the author of numerous works of fiction, poetry non-fiction, including Lud Heat; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Downriver; Radon Daughters; Lights Out for the Territory; Rodinsky's Room, with Rachel Lichtenstein; Landor's Tower; London Orbital; Dining On Stones; Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk; American Smoke and London Overground. Downriver won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award. He lives in Hackney, east London.

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Journeys to the End of the Light

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His voice is still urgent. If we know what's good for us, we'll listen

Sinclair's is a prolix poetics, an amassing of noun-hives whose compacted wit would make the most lexically dexterous rapper envious

To overlook Sinclair is to ignore one of the most distinctive voices in Britain

One of the finest writers alive

London's own poet laureate

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