Provoked by the strange, enigmatic series of paintings, Afal du Brogwyr (Black Apple of Gower), made by the artist Ceri Richards, Sinclair leaves behind the familiar, 'murky elsewheres' of his life in Hackney, carrying an envelope of B&W photos and old postcards, along with fragments of memory that [...]

In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare. 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 ...In 2000 Iain Sinclair[...]

'A book about London; in other words, a book about everything' - Peter Ackroyd, "The Times". 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 find[...]

Downriver is a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair. It is the winner of the Encore award and the James Tait Black memorial prize. The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to do[...]

Iain Sinclair looks to the open road and the Beat Generation in American Smoke. Completing the itinerary begun with Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire and continued with Ghost Milk, Iain Sinclair breaks for the border with American Smoke, his first full engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the[...]

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. This book places Sinclair in a range of contexts, including: the late 1960s counter-[...]

The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet
"How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in "The Guardian." "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a[...]

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 thirties. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodins[...]