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Author | : Iain Sinclair |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786071754 |
Download The Last London Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.
Author | : Iain Sinclair |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2003-10-02 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0141936010 |
Download London Orbital Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city. Encircling 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' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen it before. 'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English'John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph 'A magnum opus, my book of the year. I urge you to read it. In fact, if you're a Londoner and haven't read it by the end of next year, I suggest you leave'Will Self, Evening Standard 'A journey into the heart of darkness and a fascinating snapshot of who we are, lit by Sinclair's vivid prose. I'm sure it will be read fifty years from now'J. G. Ballard, Observer 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.
Author | : Iain Sinclair |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 178283446X |
Download Living with Buildings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane We 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 histories. In Living With Buildings, Iain Sinclair embarks on a series of expeditions - through London, Marseille, Mexico and the Outer Hebrides. A father and his daughter, who has a rare syndrome, visit the estate where they once lived. Developers clink champagne glasses as residents are 'decanted' from their homes. A box sculpted from whalebone, thought to contain healing properties, is returned to its origins with unexpected consequences. Part investigation, part travelogue, Living With Buildings brings the spaces we inhabit to life as never before.
Author | : Iain Sinclair |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0865478678 |
Download American Smoke Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published in Great Britain in 2013 by Hamish Hamilton.
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Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2013 |
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ISBN | : 9781870507325 |
Download Objects of Obscure Desire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Iain Sinclair |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2021-09-02 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0861540719 |
Download The Gold Machine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 ‘Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.’ Barry Miles ‘The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company.’ TLS From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors. In The Gold Machine, Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by – and in reaction to – an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather, Arthur Sinclair. The incursions of Catholic bounty hunters and Adventist missionaries are contrasted with today’s ecotourists and short-cut vision seekers. The family history of a displaced Scottish highlander fades into the brutal reality of a major land grab. The historic thirst for gold and the establishment of sprawling coffee plantations leave terrible wounds on virgin territory. What might once have been portrayed as an intrepid adventure is transformed into a shocking tale of the violated rights of indigenous people, secret dealings between London finance and Peruvian government, and the collusion of the church in colonial expansion. In Sinclair’s haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we.
Author | : Iain Sinclair |
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Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : England |
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Download Dining on Stones, Or, The Middle Ground Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man's fractured psyche piece by piece, Dining on Stones is a puzzle and a quest for both writer and reader.
Author | : Iain Sinclair |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-08-02 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9780241964859 |
Download London Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Welcome to the real, unauthorised London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten.
Author | : Iain Sinclair |
Publisher | : Hamish Hamilton |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-06-06 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9780241965504 |
Download Lights Out for the Territory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'The notion was to cut a crude V into the sprawl of the city, to vandalize dormant energies by an act of ambulant signmaking.' Walking 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 gives us a daring, provocative, enlightening, disturbing and utterly unique picture of modern urban life. And in the process he reveals the dark underbelly of a London many of us did not know existed. 'Quite simply one of the finest books about London ever written.' SpectatorCover art by- Stephen Powers'whether the book addresses graffiti explicitly, evoke a city from the past, or are considered cult classics, the novels all share the quality - like street art - of speaking to their time.' Guardian Gallery
Author | : Robert Sheppard |
Publisher | : Northcote House Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0746311494 |
Download Iain Sinclair Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Iain Sinclair has a growing reputation as a novelist and writer of documentary non--fiction. This study covers his major works, but also seeks to trace the connections between the writings and his earlier books of poetry. Indeed, it traces the intertextual curve of Sinclair's entire oeuvre, and demonstrates that its unity lies in the very desire to make connections between disparate cultural experience, for example between the context of avant garde poetry that Sinclair emerged from, and the world of pulp fiction that he has negotiated as a book dealer and an editor.