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White Chappell, Scarlet TracingsandLud Heatgathered in a single volume From the singular imagination ofIain Sinclair-poet, novelist, and cartographer of London's haunted geographies-comesThe Darkling Trilogy, uniting two of his most influential works for the first time in a single North American edition. White Chappell, Scarlet Tracingsexcavates the mythos of Jack the Ripper and Victorian London, interweaving true crime, literary obsession, and occult speculation into a hallucinatory investigation of violence and memory. captures the pulse of London as a visionary landscape, charting the city's architecture, ley lines, and buried histories in a fevered mix of poetry, reportage, and esoteric speculation. Together, these books form a darkly luminous map of a city-and a culture-in collapse and rebirth. By turns savage, satirical, and visionary,The Darkling Trilogystands as a cornerstone of Sinclair's work and a landmark in contemporary British literature. Long unavailable in North America, this volume restores two masterpieces to print for a new generation of readers seeking the feverish borderland where history, myth, and psychogeography converge.

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""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"" ""A glorious achievement, by turns drily humorous and darkly atmospheric."" --Ian Thomson, FT on The Gold Machine ""Impeccably researched."" -- ""The New Yorker, on The Gold Machine"" ""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"" ""Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English.""--John Lanchester on The Golden Compass ""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 ""Sinclair's discursive, intensely literate prose knits together time and place.""-- ""Washington Post, Best travel books of 2021 (The Golden Compass) "" ""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""

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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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