<p><b>In <i>Edge of the Orison</i> the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare.<br></b><br>In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead ... <br><br>In 2000 Iain Sinclair set out to recreate Clare''s walk away from madness. He wanted to understand his bond with the poet and escape the gravity of his London obsessions. Accompanied on this journey by his wife Anna (who shares a connection with Clare), the artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore - as well as a host of literary ghosts, both visionary and romantic - Sinclair''s quest for Clare becomes an investigation into madness, sanity and the nature of the poet''s muse.<br><br>''Brilliant . . . amusing, alarming and poignant. An elegy for an already lost English landscape. Magnificent and urgent'' Robert Macfarlane, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br>''A sensitive,beaut
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<p><b><i>Downriver </i>is a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair.<br><br>WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE</b><br><br>The Thames runs through...
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The final chapter in Sinclair's life-long odyssey through the streets of the Big Smoke
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<p><b><i>Dining on Stones</i> is Iain Sinclair''s sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs<br><br></b>Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit...
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