Lud Heat
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Skylight Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1908011602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published: London: Albion Village, 1975.
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Hawksmoor
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780241965481
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe.' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . Cover art by: Barn'whether the book addresses graffiti explicitly, evoke a city from the past, or are considered cult classics, the novels all share the quality - like street art - of speaking to their time.' Guardian Gallery
Suicide Bridge
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Skylight Press
Published: 2013-08-31
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1908011610
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This classic text has in recent times been fused to its contemporaneous volume, Lud Heat, but very much deserves to stand on its own. Suicide Bridge was originally published by Albion Village Press in 1979 with the sub-title A Book of the Furies, A Mythology of the South & East - Autumn 1973 to Spring 1978. As elsewhere, Sinclair saunters into the shadowy city underworld with his ever-watchful eye and roving syntax, this time probing the mythic figures from William Blake's Jerusalem and the mythical king Bladud. Previously text-bound entities such as Hand, Hyle and Kotope are made flesh and and given to foggy breath in the contemporary landscape. Addressed to "the enemy" the reader is precariously perched on the teetering bridge while the author kicks at the mythic spindles that hold it up. Sinclair's alternating, inter-penetrating prose and poetry become the uneven struts and pylons of a new concrete/abstract literary edifice. - 'One of the cliffs of Blake's and Coleridge's Albion sweeping against the walls of Everywhere...This is the landscape of another realm. We are walking over a raw and smoking surface filled with surprises. All around are the possibilities of lost tribes quietly bustling in the shadows...This is a rare jewel.' - Michael McClure
London
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2012-08-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780241964859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Welcome to the real, unauthorised London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten.
The Gold Machine
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-09-02
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0861540719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 ‘The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company.’ TLS From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors. In The Gold Machine, Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by – and in reaction to – an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather, Arthur Sinclair. The incursions of Catholic bounty hunters and Adventist missionaries are contrasted with today’s ecotourists and short-cut vision seekers. 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. What might once have been portrayed as an intrepid adventure is transformed into a shocking tale of the violated rights of indigenous people, secret dealings between London finance and Peruvian government, and the collusion of the church in colonial expansion. In Sinclair’s haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we.
The Last London
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1786071754
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Lud Heat
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781862072077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Inspired by the churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor, this collection of prose and verse explores the contemporary city and the historical and mythical patterns that it hides. Also included in this edition is the author's series of texts on the mythology of myth and place, Suicide Bridge.
Lud Heat
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781862075047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edition of Lud Heat also includes Sinclair's series of texts on the mythology of place called Suicide Bridge
Dining on Stones, Or, The Middle Ground
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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-wives; East End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man's fractured psyche piece by piece, Dining on Stones is a puzzle and a quest for both writer and reader.
Living with Buildings
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 178283446X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'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.
