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  • The London Darkling Trilogy

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, Lud Heat, and Suicide Bridge gathered in a single volume.From the singular imagination of Iain Sinclair—poet, novelist, and cartographer of London’s haunted geographies—comes The London Darkling Trilogy, gathering three of his most influential works for the first time in a single North American edition.Lud Heat charts London as a visionary landscape, tracing the . ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Living with Buildings

    And Walking with Ghosts – On Health and Architecture

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    Series series
    'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert MacfarlaneWe shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us but they can also heal us. We project our hopes and fears onto buildings, while they absorb our ... Read more

    $14.09 CAD

  • Ghost Milk

    Calling Time on the Grand Project

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    In Ghost Milk Iain Sinclair exposes the dark underbelly of the Olympics 2012Burrowing 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Dining on Stones

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair's sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs.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, unable to make sense of his search, he is haunted by ghosts: of the dead and the not-so dead; demanding wives and ex-wives; East ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $11.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $19.19 CAD