Dining on Stones

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'

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

'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'

Iain Sinclair is the author of (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); (with Rachel Lichtenstein); and . He is also the editor of .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, is a puzzle and a quest — for both writer and reader.

Praise for Iain Sinclair:

'A modern-day William Blake' Jacques Peretti,

'One of the finest writers alive' Alan Moore

'Eloquent chronicler of London's grunge and glory'

'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'

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

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

'Iain Sinclair is a reliably exhilarating writer'

'He is incapable of writing a dull paragraph'

Iain Sinclair is the author of (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award);