Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when the author sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find... Læs mere
A journey through time and space, grappling with the ghosts of empire
Explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route.
One of Britain's finest writers embarks on a journey to explore the relationship between our health and the buildings that surround us.
Introducing the streets of London, this title traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and... Læs mere
London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten. This anthology intends to remind us of the irascible quirkiness of its residents.
Iain Sinclair, the celebrated author, walks back along the blue-grey roads and the cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower peninsula.
In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching... Læs mere
The final chapter in Sinclair’s life-long odyssey through the streets of the Big Smoke
A novel about London - its past, its people, and its underbelly. It combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period.
In American Smoke, the author hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats. On the trail of the American Beats, he makes a delirious and perhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Olson and Gary Snyder.