Dining on Stones

Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclairs 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 mans 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 formDaily Telegraph

Prose of almost incantatory power, cut with Chandleresque pithinessSunday 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 forensicIndependent on Sunday

Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landors Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinskys 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 mans 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 Londons grunge and gloryIndependent

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

Sinclair is a genius . . . Sinclair is the poet of placeGQ

Sinclair breathes wondrous life into monstrous, man-made landscapesTLS

Iain Sinclair is a reliably exhilarating writerTelegraph

He is incapable of writing a dull paragraphScotland on Sunday

Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landors Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinskys 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.