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Seven Rooms
Dominic Jaeckle, Jess Chandler; Afterword by Gareth Evans; Contributions by Mario Dondero, Erica Baum, Jess Cotton, Rebecca Tamás, Stephen Watts, Helen Cammock, Salvador Espriu, Lucy Mercer, Lucy Sante, RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa, Ryan Choi, John Yau, Nicolette Polek, Chris Petit, Sascha Macht, Amanda DeMarco, Mark Lanegan, Vala Thorodds, Richard Scott, Joshua Cohen, Hannah Regel, Nick Cave,, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Matthew Gregory, Olivier Castel, Emmanuel Iduma, Joan Brossa, Cameron Griffiths, Imogen Cassels, Hisham Bustani, Maia Tabet, Raúl Guerrero, Velimir Khlebnikov, Natasha Randall, Edwina Atlee, Matthew Shaw, Aidan Moffat, Lesley Harrison, Oliver Bancroft, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Will Eaves, Sandro Miller, Jim Hugunin,, …
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Seven Rooms brings together highlights from Hotel, a magazine for
new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since
its inception in 2016, provided a space for experimental reflection
on literature's status as art & cultural mediator. Co-published
by Tenement Press and Prototype, this anthology captures, refracts,
and reflects a vital moment in independent publishing in the UK,
and is built on the shared values of openness, collaboration, and
total creative freedom.
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Silicon Fen (Hardcover)
Simon Willmoth, Steven Bode, Iain Sinclair
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This is the fully-illustrated edition of LONDON IN FRAGMENTS. A new
paperback edition is also available, published under the title A
MUDLARK'S TREASURES: London in Fragments 'A beautiful book.' Daily
Mail 'Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening Standard 'Gripping.'
Spectator 'Brilliant.' Penelope Lively 'Indefatigably researched.'
Country Life 'Beautifully illustrated.' Monocle Mudlarking, the act
of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long
tradition in England's capital. In the late 18th and 19th
centuries, mudlarks were small boys grubbing a living from scrap.
Today's mudlarks unearth relics of the past from the banks of the
Thames which tell stories of Londoners throughout history. From
Roman tiles to elegant Georgian pottery, presented here are
modern-day mudlark Ted Sandling's most evocative finds, gorgeously
photographed. Together they create a mosaic of everyday London life
through the centuries, touching on the journeys, pleasures, vices,
industries, adornments and comforts of a world city. This unique
and stunning book celebrates the beauty of small things, and makes
sense of the intangible connection that found objects give us to
the individuals who lost them.
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Reports from the Deep End (Paperback)
Maxim Jakubowski, Rick McGrath; Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Christopher Fowler, …
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Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective –
Ballard is one of them. Master of both literary and science
fiction, his classic novels such as Empire of the Sun, Crash and
Cocaine Nights show a world out of joint, a bewildering and strange
place. Alongside the classic dystopias of The Drowned World and
High Rise, his legacy shaped the future of literature. This
collection gathers today’s greatest literary and science fiction
authors to pay tribute to the creator of Balllardian worlds we live
in today. Featuring: • Chris Beckett • Alexandra Benedict •
Pat Cadigan • Adrian Cole • Ramsey Campbell • Paul Di Filippo
• Christopher Fowler • Jeff Noon • David Gordon • James
Grady • Preston Grassmann • Andrew Hook • Samantha Lee Howe
• Rhys Hughes • Maxim Jakubowski • Hanna Jameson • Toby
Litt • James Lovegrove • Nick Mamatas • Barry Malzberg •
Michael Moorcock • Rick McGrath • Adrian McKinty • Geoff
Nicholson • Christine Poulson • David Quantick • Adam Roberts
• George Sandison • Will Self • Iain Sinclair • Lavie
Tidhar A first of its kind anthology, collecting tales of
humanity’s uncanny and uneasy clash with the future, and the
distorted psychological spaces hidden in empires of concrete.
A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into
the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so
solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning author of
The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the
footsteps of our ancestors. Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel
through Peru, guided by - and in reaction to - an ill-fated
colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather. The family
history of a displaced Scottish highlander fades into the brutal
reality of a major land grab. The historic thirst for gold and the
establishment of sprawling coffee plantations leave terrible wounds
on virgin territory. In Sinclair's haunting prose, no place escapes
its past, and nor can we. 'The Gold Machine is a trip, a
psychoactive expedition in compelling company.' TLS
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane
We 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 histories.
In Living With Buildings, Iain Sinclair embarks on a series of expeditions - through London, Marseille, Mexico and the Outer Hebrides. A father and his daughter, who has a rare syndrome, visit the estate where they once lived. Developers clink champagne glasses as residents are 'decanted' from their homes. A box sculpted from whalebone, thought to contain healing properties, is returned to its origins with unexpected consequences. Part investigation, part travelogue, Living With Buildings brings the spaces we inhabit to life as never before.
Both a thrilling expose & a considered anthropological review,
'London's Underworld' is driven by the author's conflicting
feelings of admiration for the rebellious spirit which frees these
criminals from the laws of reserved Victorian society & also
pity for the restless, violent attitudes which leave them stranded
there, alone."
A splendid - and necessary - publication...a great resource Iain
Sinclair Charles Booth's landmark survey of life in
late-19th-century London, published for the first time in one
volume. In the late nineteenth century, Charles Booth's landmark
social and economic survey found that 35 percent of Londoners were
living in abject poverty. Booth's team of social investigators
interviewed Londoners from all walks of life, recording their
comments, together with their own unrestrained remarks and
statistical information, in 450 notebooks. Their findings formed
the basis of Booth's colour-coded social mapping (from vicious and
semi-criminal to wealthy) and his seventeen-volume survey Inquiry
into the Life and Labour of the People of London, 1886-1903.
Organized into six geographical sections, Charles Booth's London
Poverty Maps presents the hand-colored preparatory and printed
social mapping of London. Accompanying the maps are reproductions
of pages from the original notebooks, containing anecdotes and
observations too judgmental for Booth to include in his final
published survey. An introduction by professor Mary S. Morgan
clarifies the aims and methodology of Booth's survey and six themed
essays contextualize the the survey's findings, accompanied by
evocative period photographs. Providing insights into the minutia
of everyday life viewed through the lens of inhabitants of every
trade, class, creed, and nationality, Charles Booth's London
Poverty Maps brings to life the diversity and dynamism of late
nineteenth-century London.
In this book, which includes a new interview with Ballard who wrote
the book on which the film was based, Sinclair explores the
temporal loop which connects film and novel, and asks questions
such as to what extent is "Crash "a premonition of some of the more
remarkable media events of recent times. In the BFI MODERN CLASSICS
series.
Text by Iain Sinclair, illustrations by Oona Grimes, printed
tete-beche.
A New Statesman Book of the Year
London. 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, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.ory.
Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary
debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the 'real life' story.
Works of art, novels, films, are frequently bolstered by reference
to the autobiography of the creator, or to underlying 'fact.' Where
does that leave the imagination? And who gets to define the
parameters of 'reality' and 'fiction' anyway? Five writers debate
the limits of materialism and realism, in art and literature - and
offer a passionate defence of the alchemical imagination in a
fact-based world.
A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 ‘Follow Iain
Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all
that seemed so solid and immutable.’ Barry Miles From the
award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the
Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors. Iain
Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by – and in
reaction to – an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his
great-grandfather. The family history of a displaced Scottish
highlander fades into the brutal reality of a major land grab. The
historic thirst for gold and the establishment of sprawling coffee
plantations leave terrible wounds on virgin territory. In
Sinclair’s haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can
we. ‘The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition
in compelling company.’ TLS
Iain Sinclair, the celebrated author and psycho-geographer, walks
back along the blue-grey roads and cliff-top paths of his childhood
in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower peninsula. Provoked by the
strange and enigmatic series of paintings Afal du Brogwyr (Black
Apple of Gower) made by the artist Ceri Richards in the 1950s,
Sinclair leaves behind the familiar "murky elsewheres" of his life
in Hackney, London, carrying an envelope of photographs and old
postcards, along with fragments of memory. He soon realises that a
series of walks over the same ground - Port Enyon Point to Worm's
Head have become significant waymarks in his life. His
recollections of a meeting with the poet Vernon Watkins, the art of
Richards and the poetry of Dylan Thomas lead him to his final
quest, the Paviland Cave where in 1823 human remains 36,000 years
old were discovered.
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, echoed as always in the
mythologies of London, through which so many of them passed.
When a body is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton, the only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a woman's name scrawled in blood on the wall. So begins the first investigation by Sherlock Holmes to be recorded by his new room-mate Dr Watson. Their search for the murderer uncovers a story of love and revenge which began years before in Salt Lake City.
London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery
into the unloved outskirts of the city 'My book of the year.
Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work
in English' John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph Encircling London like
a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets
out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic
footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will
lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail
parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages,
Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed
by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and
round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen
it before. 'A magnum opus, my book of the year. I urge you to read
it. In fact, if you're a Londoner and haven't read it by the end of
next year, I suggest you leave' Will Self, Evening Standard 'A
journey into the heart of darkness and a fascinating snapshot of
who we are, lit by Sinclair's vivid prose. I'm sure it will be read
fifty years from now' J. G. Ballard, Observer
A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation The Independent 50 Best
Summer Reads Welcome to a strange new world in which a poem can be
written using only one vowel, processed through computer code,
collaged from film trailers, compiled from Facebook status updates,
hidden inside a Sudoku puzzle, and even painted on sheep to
demonstrate Quantum Theory. Discover a multitude of new and unusual
poetic forms - from tweet to time-splice, and from skinny
villanelle to breakbeat sonnet - in this inspiring and inventive
anthology. Adventures in Form features over ninety poems by
forty-six contributors including Patience Agbabi, Christian Bok,
Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Roddy Lumsden, Ian McMillan, Paul
Muldoon, Ruth Padel and Hannah Silva. Edited and introduced by Tom
Chivers.
Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of
London's most fascinating boroughs 'As detailed and as complex as a
historical map, taking the reader hither and thither with no care
as to which might be the most direct route'Observer Hackney, That
Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's personal record of his
north-east London home in which 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 Olympic Park gnawing at its edges. It
is a message in a bottle, chucked into the flood of the future. 'An
explosion of literary fireworks'Peter Ackroyd, The Times
'Gloriously sprawling, wonderfully congested, one of the finest
books about London in recent decades'Daily Telegraph 'Sinclair
adopts the roles of pedestrian, pilgrim and poet, magnificently
illuminating the borough's historical and spiritual life'The Times
'Remarkable, compelling, bristles with unexpected, frequently lurid
life. On Sinclair's territory there's nobody to touch him . . . a
gonzo Samuel Pepys'Sunday Times 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, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk. He is also
the editor of London: City of Disappearances.
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