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GebondenEngels9780719069048
1-11-2007
A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London -- . Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719069055
1-11-2007
A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London -- . Meer
GebondenEngels9783631771884
23-7-2019
This book explores the significance of photography for Iain Sinclair’s London prose. It argues that the visual medium’s role extends beyond that of a literary theme to a literary principle. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141014821
28-4-2005
Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man's fractured psyche piece by piece, this book is a puzzle and a quest - for both writer and reader. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141014838
2-10-2003
Introducing the streets of London, this title 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, it intends to create a snapshot of the city. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141014852
29-4-2004
The 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, high-rent lowlife, broken criminals and reborn lunatics picks over the rivers detritus. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141012742
25-2-2010
Offers a personal record of the author's north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. This documentary fiction seeks to capture the spirit of place, before Hackney succumbs to mendacious green papers, eco boasts, sponsored public art and the Olympic Park gnawing at its edges. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141012759
26-10-2006
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, Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141014845
29-4-2004
A novel about London - its past, its people, and its underbelly. It 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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141014746
2-10-2003
Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when the author sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141039640
5-4-2012
Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics, this title explores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241955819
3-7-2014
In American Smoke, the author hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats. On the trail of the American Beats, he makes a delirious and perhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Olson and Gary Snyder. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241964859
2-8-2012
London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten. This anthology intends to remind us of the irascible quirkiness of its residents. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241971499
7-4-2016
Explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780861543731
1-9-2022
A journey through time and space, grappling with the ghosts of empire Meer
PaperbackEngels9781917283076
15-5-2025
Iain Sinclair follows in the footsteps of photographer John Deakin in a bold fictionalisation. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781908213457
8-7-2016
Iain Sinclair, the celebrated author, walks back along the blue-grey roads and the cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower peninsula. Meer