Dining on Stones

Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair''s sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs.

Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his search, he is haunted by ghosts: of the dead and the not-so dead; demanding wives and ex-wives; East End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man''s fractured psyche piece by piece, Dining on Stones is a puzzle and a quest - for both writer and reader.

''Exhilarating, wonderfully funny, greatly unsettling - Sinclair on top form'' Daily Telegraph

''Prose of almost incantatory power, cut with Chandleresque pithiness'' Sunday Times

''Spectacular: the work of a man with the power to see things as they are, and magnify that vision with a clarity that is at once hallucinatory and forensic'' Independent on Sunday

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, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his search, he is haunted by ghosts: of the dead and the not-so dead; demanding wives and ex-wives; East End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man''s fractured psyche piece by piece, Dining on Stones is a puzzle and a quest - for both writer and reader.

Praise for Iain Sinclair:

''A modern-day William Blake'' Jacques Peretti, BBC Culture Show

''One of the finest writers alive'' Alan Moore

''Eloquent chronicler of London''s grunge and glory'' Independent

''He writes with a fascinated, gleeful disgust, sees with neo-Blakean vision, listens with an ear tuned to the white noise of an asphalt soundtrack'' The Times

''Sinclair is a genius . . . Sinclair is the poet of place'' GQ

''Sinclair breathes wondrous life into monstrous, man-made landscapes'' TLS

''Iain Sinclair is a reliably exhilarating writer'' Telegraph

''He is incapable of writing a dull paragraph'' Scotland on Sunday

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, Ghost Milk, Dining on Stones and Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.