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  • London Orbital

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    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 TelegraphEncircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Alchemy

    Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    Five writers grapple with reality and fiction, and the alchemical process of turning life into art. As Iain Sinclair frames it in his luminous introduction, they try to explain the impulse to write 'by way of personal anecdote, revelation or hopeful punt in the dark.' ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction

    by Michael Moorcock ...
    Voted by the London Times as one of the best writers since 1945, Michael Moorcock was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has won almost all the major Science Fiction, Fantasy, and lifetime achievement awards including the “Howie,” the Prix Utopiales and the Stoker. Best known for his rule-breaking SF and Fantasy, including the classic Elric and Hawkmoon ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edge of the Orison

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

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John ClareIn 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, Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead ...In 2000 Iain Sinclair set out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness. He wanted to understand his bond with the poet ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • London

    City of Disappearances

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    ‘A book full of richness, unexpected enticements, short sharp shocks and breathtaking writing’ GuardianWelcome to the real, unauthorised London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten. The perfect companion to the city.‘Exhilarating, truly wonderful, a cavalcade of eloquent writing. London demands an anthology like this to remind us of the irascible ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Mudlark's Treasures

    London in Fragments

    by Ted Sandling ...
    'A beautiful book.' Daily Mail'Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening Standard'Gripping.' Spectator'Brilliant.' Penelope Lively'Indefatigably researched.' Country Life'Beautifully illustrated.' MonocleMudlarking, the act of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long tradition in En... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Millennium People

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of ‘Cocaine Nights’ and ‘Super-Cannes’.When a bomb explodes at Heathrow, it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But when he discovers that his ex-wife is among the victims he is compelled to further investigate the mysterious and shocking circumstances ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    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. These ruined and ruthless dandies appear and disappear through a phantasmagoria ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Lights Out for the Territory

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    '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 both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of the city. In LIGHTS OUT FOR THE TERRITORY he ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

    A Confidential Report

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    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 route'ObserverHackney, That Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's personal record of his north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. It is a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Rodinsky's Room

    by Iain Sinclair, Rachel Lichtenstein ...
    Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the 1930s. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London - with Iain Sinclair's meditations on ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Downriver

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    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 and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of industry and rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD