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American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light by Iain Sinclair
Category: Travel
In American Smoke, Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats. On the trail of the American Beats, Iain Sinclair makes a delirious and perhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Olson and Gary Snyder. It is a journey in ...Show more
American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light by Iain Sinclair
Category: Travel
Iain Sinclair looks to the open road and the Beat Generation in American Smoke. Iain Sinclair breaks for the border with American Smoke, his first full engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the American Beats and their fellow travellers. In a book filled with bad journeys and fated decisions, ...Show more
Ariadne's Thread : In Memory of W.g. Sebald by Iain (INT) Philippa; Sinclair Comber
Category: Biography
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman - Insight Text Guide by Iain Sinclair
Category: Fiction | Series: Insight Text Guide
Insight Text Guides - Death of a Salesman is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Arthur Miller's play contains detailed character and scene analysis, along with evaluations of genre, structure and language. Important contextual i ...Show more
Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps by Iain Sinclair & LSE
Category: History
From 1886 to 1903, passionate social reformer Charles Booth (1840-1916) conducted a landmark survey of the life and labour of the poor of London, which resulted in the finding that 35% of Londoners were living in abject poverty. This shocking statistic is brought to life by the hundreds of interviews wi ...Show more
Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair
Category: Fiction
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-w ...Show more
Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project by Iain Sinclair
Category: Politics
What happens when the games have gone? Iain Sinclair reports on the trouble to come. Beginning in his east London home many years before it will be invaded by the Olympian machinery of global capitalism, Sinclair strikes out near and far in search of the forgotten and erased. Burrowing under the perimet ...Show more
Ghost Milk : Calling Time on the Grand Project by Iain Sinclair
Category: Fiction
Beginning in his east London home many years before it will be invaded by the Olympian machinery of global capitalism, Sinclair strikes out near and far in search of the forgotten and erased. He travels from the mouth of the Thames to Oxford, crosses Morecambe Bay in the footsteps of drowned Chinese coc ...Show more
HACKNEY, THAT ROSE-RED EMPIRE: A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT by SINCLAIR IAIN
Category: Fiction
Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry. Persistently revived, reinvented, betrayed, it has become a symbol of inner-city chaos, crime and poverty. Now, the Olympics, a final attempt to clamp down on a re ...Show more
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire by Iain Sinclair
Category: Travel Literature
"Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire" is Iain Sinclair's personal record of the area of north-east London where he has lived for forty years. It is a documentary fiction, seeking to capture the spirit of place, before Hackney succumbs to mendacious green papers, eco boasts, sponsored public art and the Olympi ...Show more