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A Day's Walk Around the Ginger Line

London Overground

Journeys to the End of the Light

American Smoke

City of Disappearances

London

A Confidential Report

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

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

Edge of the Orison

Dining on Stones

A Study in Scarlet

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings

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Ghost Milk

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Wonderful, sharp, amusing, grippingly atmospheric. One of our most dazzling prose stylists

Dazzling . . . Sinclair's explorations by foot are highly engaging and anything but pedestrian

Brilliant, superb. Anger drives the book forwards. Sinclair has gone from cult author to national treasure

Ghost Milk reads like a meld of poet Allen Ginsberg, comic books writer Alan Moore and an anarchists' message board . . . There is no doubt that Sinclair is original, observant, a wonderful phrase maker

A striking visual poetry and tart black comedy are extracted form even the most hopeless of London locations

A scorching 400-page diatribe against this and other "grand projects" . . . [Sinclair is] a crazily knowledgeable local historian with a shaman's grasp of strange energies, unseen ley lines, urban esoterica

Calling Time on the Grand Project

What happens when the games have gone? Iain Sinclair reports on the trouble to come 
Beginning in his east London home many years before it will be invaded by the Olympian machinery of global capitalism, Sinclair strikes out near and far in search of the forgotten and erased. 
 
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 sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots. This is a road map to a possible future as well as Iain Sinclair's most powerful statement yet on the throwaway impermanence of the present.

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 sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots. This is a road map to a possible future as well as Iain Sinclair's most powerful statement yet on the throwaway impermanence of the present. 
 
'Wonderful, sharp, amusing, grippingly atmospheric. One of our most dazzling prose stylists' Daily Telegraph 
 
'A scorching diatribe' Independent 
 
'Sinclair views London through a distortingly surreal lens; a striking visual poetry and tart black comedy are extracted from even the most hopeless of London locations. For those unfamiliar with Sinclair's work, Ghost Milk is a good place to start' Spectator 
 
'Inventive, dazzling, arresting. Sinclair lays bare the human consequences and mourns the disruption of communities, the erasure of history and of a sense of place and continuity. This is Sinclair at his best. He is the archetypal whistleblower, a pricker of vainglorious and self-promoting hyperbole. A superb chronicle of an improbable dream that has descended to a nightmare. It is essential reading for all Londoners curious about their city' Dan Cruickshank, New Statesman 
 
'Be warned: Ghost Milk reads like some whimsical meld of the poet Allen Ginsberg, comic books writer Alan Moore and an anarchists' message board. Highly alienating' Evening Standard 
 
'A wounding assault' DJ Taylor, Independent on Sunday 
 
'Sinclair's literary excavations of London's memory go deeper than anyone's' Time Out 
 
'Brilliant' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian 
 
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. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.

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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Calling Time on the Grand Project

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Wonderful, sharp, amusing, grippingly atmospheric. One of our most dazzling prose stylists

Dazzling . . . Sinclair's explorations by foot are highly engaging and anything but pedestrian

Brilliant, superb. Anger drives the book forwards. Sinclair has gone from cult author to national treasure

Ghost Milk reads like a meld of poet Allen Ginsberg, comic books writer Alan Moore and an anarchists' message board . . . There is no doubt that Sinclair is original, observant, a wonderful phrase maker

A striking visual poetry and tart black comedy are extracted form even the most hopeless of London locations

A scorching 400-page diatribe against this and other "grand projects" . . . [Sinclair is] a crazily knowledgeable local historian with a shaman's grasp of strange energies, unseen ley lines, urban esoterica

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