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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 and Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.
Wonderful, sharp, amusing, grippingly atmospheric. One of our most dazzling prose stylists Daily Telegraph Dazzling ... Sinclair's explorations by foot are highly engaging and anything but pedestrian Sunday Telegraph Brilliant, superb. Anger drives the book forwards. Sinclair has gone from cult author to national treasure -- Robert Macfarlane Guardian Ghost Milk reads like a meld of poet Allen Ginsberg, comic books writer Alan Moore and an anarchists' message board ... There is no doubt that Sinclair is original, observant, a wonderful phrase maker Evening Standard A striking visual poetry and tart black comedy are extracted form even the most hopeless of London locations Spectator A scorching 400-page diatribe against this and other grand projects ... [Sinclair is] a crazily knowledgeable local historian with a shaman's grasp of strange energies, unseen ley lines, urban esoterica Independent Magazine
