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  • Alchemy

    Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    Five writers grapple with reality and fiction, and the alchemical process of turning life into art. As Iain Sinclair frames it in his luminous introduction, they try to explain the impulse to write 'by way of personal anecdote, revelation or hopeful punt in the dark.' ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction

    by Michael Moorcock ...
    Voted by the London Times as one of the best writers since 1945, Michael Moorcock was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has won almost all the major Science Fiction, Fantasy, and lifetime achievement awards including the “Howie,” the Prix Utopiales and the Stoker. Best known for his rule-breaking SF and Fantasy, including the classic Elric and Hawkmoon ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • London

    City of Disappearances

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    ‘A book full of richness, unexpected enticements, short sharp shocks and breathtaking writing’ GuardianWelcome to the real, unauthorised London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten. The perfect companion to the city.‘Exhilarating, truly wonderful, a cavalcade of eloquent writing. London demands an anthology like this to remind us of the irascible ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • A Mudlark's Treasures

    London in Fragments

    by Ted Sandling ...
    'A beautiful book.' Daily Mail'Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening Standard'Gripping.' Spectator'Brilliant.' Penelope Lively'Indefatigably researched.' Country Life'Beautifully illustrated.' MonocleMudlarking, the act of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long tradition in En... ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pariah Genius

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    Renowned author Iain Sinclair follows in the footsteps of photographer John Deakin, whose chronicles of Soho life - and the world of Francis Bacon and his friends - has so influenced our perception of that generation's work. In this bold fictionalisation, Sinclair enters the underworld of Deakin's life and imagination. The result is an engrossing, utterly unique portrait of a man who some felt was ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Rodinsky's Room

    by Iain Sinclair, Rachel Lichtenstein ...
    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 1930s. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London - with Iain Sinclair's meditations on ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Last London

    True Fictions from an Unreal City

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    A New Statesman Book of the YearLondon. 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, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Living with Buildings

    And Walking with Ghosts – On Health and Architecture

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    Series series
    'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert MacfarlaneWe 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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Lowlife (Faber Editions)

    'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' - Sebastian Faulks

    by Alexander Baron ...
    One Londoner gambles on his own life in this lost classic by 'one of the great English Jewish novelists' ( Times), introduced by Iain Sinclair.'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' Sebastian Faulks'A fascinating snapshot of a lost London world, by a remarkable neglected writer.' Sarah WatersA wonderfully enduring novel . . . A great rediscovery.' William Boyd'Perfect . . . Capt... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crash

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) brought down a storm of controversy and opprobrium when it was first screened in London. And yet it's a cool, controlled, formal film, unsensational, more analytic than titillating, a brilliant exposé of modern pathologies. It has almost none of the violence and explicit sexual content of the J.G. Ballard novel from which it is adapted. What is the relationship ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Reports from the Deep End

    Stories inspired by J. G. Ballard

    by Rick McGrath, Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Michael Moorcock, Christopher Fowler, Chris Beckett, Lavie Tidhar, Ramsey Campbell, Barry Malzberg, Adrian Cole, Jeff Noon, James Lovegrove, Toby Litt, Rhys Hughes ...
    A fascinating and unsettling anthology of 32 science fiction short stories in tribute to the prophetic dystopias of New Wave sci-fi pioneer, and literary titan of the twentieth century, J. G. Ballard—featuring Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Christopher Fowler, Chris Beckett, and a new Jerry Cornelius story from Michael Moorcock.Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective – Ballard is one ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • Liquid City

    Second Expanded Edition

    by Marc Atkins, Iain Sinclair ...
    Series series
    Liquid City documents the collaboration between Iain Sinclair and photographer Marc Atkins and their eccentric, manic, often moving explorations of London’s hidden streets, cemeteries, canals, parks, pubs and personalities. Consisting of striking, atmospheric photographs by Atkins, including many new additions, and with a new introduction by Sinclair, the book focuses on London’s eastern and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD