Iain Sinclair is the author of numerous works of fiction, poetry non-fiction, including Lud Heat; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Downriver; Radon Daughters; Lights Out for the Territory; Rodinsky's Room, with Rachel Lichtenstein; Landor's Tower; London Orbital; Dining On Stones; Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk; American Smoke and London Overground. Downriver won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award. He lives in Hackney, east London.
A huge critical and popular success; set on a stretch of the Thames, it explores historic and contemporary London life through real, surreal and mystical events. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Thames 1992 Encore Award. (Kirkus UK)