Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Iain Sinclair was born in Cardiff and now lives in Hackney, East London. He is the author of Lights Out for the Territory, Landor's Tower, White Chappell Scarlet Tracings, Downriver, Lud Heat and Radon Daughters.
Sinclair's writing may be caviar to the general, but his rich and allusive style won him many new friends in the much acclaimed Lights Out For the Territory, a more accessible than usual book for Sinclair in which he anatomised the territory he made his own, the streets and rivers of inner London. Many Sinclair admirers felt that he would return to his less accessible (but richly rewarding) writing, but he has once again defeated expectations. London Orbital has a new agenda: it maps an area much less fashionable and previously uncharted: that vast chasm of urban settlement outside London surrounded by the great circle of the M25. One can always rely on Sinclair's unique imagination to find bizarre and brilliant material from his journeys.
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