The London Darkling Trilogy

“Sinclair’s language is special and specialized, muscular, unsentimental, immodest in its ornateness, “inimitable” in the sense (true of so many great stylists) that it’s quite easy to imitate badly, but impossibly hard to imitate well.” * Los Angeles Review of Books on The Last London *
“Without [Sinclair] there to bear witness to 21st century London, many of the city’s historic delights, surreal ironies and brutal hypocrisies would pass by unnamed.” * Financial Times on The Last London *
“London needs Sinclair. Without him, posterity would not believe us. And no one writes like [him]. He started out a poet, and paragraphs burst with brilliance.” * Literary Review on The Last London *
“Sinclair walks every inch of his wonderful psychogeographies, pacing out huge word-courses like an architect laying out a city on an empty plain.” – J.G. Ballard on The Golden Compass
“Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English.” – John Lanchester on The Golden Compass
“Sinclair’s discursive, intensely literate prose knits together time and place.” * Washington Post, Best travel books of 2021 (The Golden Compass)

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“Impeccably researched.”

* The New Yorker, on The Gold Machine *
“A glorious achievement, by turns drily humorous and darkly atmospheric.”

– Ian Thomson, FT on The Gold Machine
“Lud Heat is a hand-held pyre. A blazing book that consumes London, the public sector, and Nicholas Hawksmoor in a conflagration of prose and verse.” * The Quietus *

Iain Sinclair is the award-winning writer of numerous critically acclaimed books on London, including The Last London, Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital, and London Overground. He won the Encore Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Downriver.

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