Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
  • Published: 9 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141012742
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $45.00

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

A Confidential Report

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5 Mar 2009
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9 Apr 2010
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'Iain Sinclair's twisty love-letter to Hackney . . . the book London's most unusual borough deserves' GQ

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's personal record of the area of north-east London where 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.
  • Published: 9 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141012742
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Iain Sinclair

Date: 2013-08-06
Iain Sinclair has been a rare book dealer, parks gardener, and all-purposes labourer across East London. In the 1970s he ran Albion Village Press, publishing Brian Catling and Chris Torrance, as well as several volumes of his own poetry. More recently he has written a number of television films, including The Cardinal and the Corpse, made with Christopher Petit for Channel 4. His essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, Sight and Sound and Modern Painters.

Downriver won the 1992 Encore Award for the year's best second novel and also the James Tait Black Memorial Award.

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 and Dining on Stones. He is also the editor of the anthology London: City of Disappearances. He lives in Hackney, East London.

Visit Iain Sinclair's website here.

Also by Iain Sinclair

London Overground
American Smoke
Scales/Silenic Drift
Ghost Milk
London
Edge Of The Orison
Dining on Stones
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