Lud heat: With an introduction by Michael Moorcock and maps by Dave McKean ; Suicide bridge

Iain-Sinclair

Vintage

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'Observer  Hackney, 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 documentary fiction, seeking 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. It is a message in a bottle, chucked into the flood of the future.   'An explosion of literary fireworks'Peter Ackroyd, The Times  'Gloriously sprawling, wonderfully congested, one of the finest books about London in recent decades'Daily Telegraph  'Sinclair adopts the roles of pedestrian, pilgrim and poet, magnificently illuminating the borough's historical and spiritual life'The Times  'Remarkable, compelling, bristles with unexpected, frequently lurid life. On Sinclair's territory there's nobody to touch him . . . a gonzo Samuel Pepys'Sunday Times  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.

'HACKNEY, THAT ROSE-RED EMPIRE: A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT'

History

Europe

Hamish Hamilton

The story goes that in 1841, the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest and, heading towards his home in Northborough, covered eighty miles over three-and-a-half days. On foot and alone, he was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce a woman already three years dead In Iain Sinclair s hands, the bare facts of John Clare's story turn both strange and elliptical. Armed with curiosity and a sense that his work has from the first been haunted by Clare, Sinclair together with fellow diviners and other stragglers of the road sets out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness and to explore his own obsession with the poet. Keats, De Quincey, Blake, Pepys, Shelley, Joyce, Beckett, artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore along with Sinclair's wife Anna, who shares a connection with Clare are his fellow travellers on a journey that becomes an exercise in memory and erasure encompassing parents, grandparents and other ancestral ghosts. The mad, wonderful, hallucinatory and physical prose of Clare finds new expression in Sinclair's deep-digging fiction of biography where memoir, history, travel, mystery and dreamstory combine in a magnificent eulogy to madness and to sanity along the borders of which may lie the poet's muse.

Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out Of Essex'

Biographies & Memoirs

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light

Travel

United States

Penguin Books, Ltd.

London Overground

Travel Writing

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 interspersed with occult conjurings and reflections on the nature of fiction and history"  GUARDIAN

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Paladin

Collected Stories: Ben Rivers

Helen Oyeyemi

MARINA WARNER

Lynne Tillman

Xiaolu Guo

Kevin Barry

Chloe Aridjis

M.John Harrison

Irene Solà

Gina Apostol

Daisy Hildyard

Vanessa Onwuemezi

Golan Haji

Nathalie Léger

Fireflies Press

Catalogue of Digitized Rare Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts Volume 2: 201-300

Miroj Shakya

University of the West

In this book, which includes a new interview with Ballard who wrote the book on which the film was based, Sinclair explores the temporal loop which connects film and novel, and asks questions such as to what extent is Crash a premonition of some of the more remarkable media events of recent times. In the BFI MODERN CLASSICS series.

Crash (BFI Film Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

British Film Institute

Bored with the routine of normal labour & fed up with its wages, tough-yet-decent Jim turns his back on work & embraces the life of a wide boy. From the pubs & clubs of a lost West End to the gang warfare of the race-course & dog-track, Jim ducks & dives & lives his life on the edge, until he is finally forced to make a life-changing decision.

Wide Boys Never Work

Robert Westerby

Literary

London Books

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