Iain Sinclair, Author . Granta $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-86207-018-9
British writer Sinclair is best known on this side of the Atlantic for two cultishly popular works of nonfiction—Lights Out for the Territory, a virtuosic London travel narrative, and Rodinsky's Room
(with Rachel Lichtenstein), the...
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Iain Sinclair, Author Random House (NY) $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42062-0
In his U.S. debut Sinclair, a British poet, filmmaker, rare book dealer and jack-of-all-trades, puts his varied background to work in a dextrous, multifaceted novel of the London docklands. The narrator, among other sordid locals, has been hired by...
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Iain Sinclair. Faber and Faber, $30 (408p) ISBN 978-0-86547-866-4
The 2012 Olympic Games bulldoze soulful working-class London in this lively if labyrinthine urban travelogue–cum–cultural jeremiad. Sinclair (Lights Out for the Territory) decries the “manifest horror” of Olympics-instigated stadiums, condos, and...
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Iain Sinclair. Faber & Faber, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8654-7867-1
This rewarding literary travelogue through the turf of Beat poets and novelists is a layered, shape-shifting homage to their edgy rhythms. English poet, novelist, and actor Sinclair (Downriver) combines history, memory, and travel in a dizzying mix...
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Iain Sinclair, Author, Dave McKean, Illustrator . Granta $27.95 (650p) ISBN 978-1-86207-547-4
At first glance, this may appear to be only a book of observations about walking alongside the M-25, the roughly 150-mile highway that encircles London, but it is actually a complex, literary meditation on crime, urban sprawl, the effect of...
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Edited by Dave McKean and William Schafer. Subterranean, $40 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59606-825-4
McKean’s storied career as an illustrator, comics creator, and fine artist is the basis for this magnificent anthology, which contains 12 stories inspired by specific McKean images (all of which are included), as well as a short McKean comic. High...
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Iain Sinclair. Oneworld, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-78607-174-3
Multigenre Welsh author Sinclair (London Overground) investigates London—his home and the almost exclusive focus of his work for half a century—and the extremes of capitalist development that have transformed it “to the point of obliteration.” In...
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