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Ghost Milk
  • Published: 12 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141039640
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $45.00
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Ghost Milk

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3 Oct 2011
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12 June 2012
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What happens when the games have gone? Iain Sinclair reports on the trouble to come


Beginning in his east London home many years before it will be invaded by the Olympian machinery of global capitalism, Sinclair strikes out near and far in search of the forgotten and erased.

Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots. This is a road map to a possible future as well as Iain Sinclair's most powerful statement yet on the throwaway impermanence of the present.
  • Published: 12 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141039640
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

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Praise for Ghost Milk

Wonderful, sharp, amusing, grippingly atmospheric. One of our most dazzling prose stylists

Daily Telegraph

Dazzling . . . Sinclair's explorations by foot are highly engaging and anything but pedestrian

Sunday Telegraph

Brilliant, superb. Anger drives the book forwards. Sinclair has gone from cult author to national treasure

Robert Macfarlane, Guardian

Ghost Milk reads like a meld of poet Allen Ginsberg, comic books writer Alan Moore and an anarchists' message board . . . There is no doubt that Sinclair is original, observant, a wonderful phrase maker

Evening Standard

A striking visual poetry and tart black comedy are extracted form even the most hopeless of London locations

Spectator

A scorching 400-page diatribe against this and other "grand projects" . . . [Sinclair is] a crazily knowledgeable local historian with a shaman's grasp of strange energies, unseen ley lines, urban esoterica

Independent Magazine