{"product_id":"hackney-that-rose-red-empire","title":"Hackney That Rose Red Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHackney, that Rose-Red Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is Iain Sinclair''s foray into one of London''s most fascinating boroughs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''As detailed and as complex as a historical map, taking the reader hither and thither with no care as to which might be the most direct route''\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHackney, That Rose-Red Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is Iain Sinclair''s personal record of his north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. It is a documentary fiction, seeking to capture the spirit of place, before Hackney succumbs to mendacious green papers, eco boasts, sponsored public art and the Olympic Park gnawing at its edges. It is a message in a bottle, chucked into the flood of the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''An explosion of literary fireworks''Peter Ackroyd, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Gloriously sprawling, wonderfully congested, one of the finest books about London in recent decades''\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Sinclair adopts the roles of pedestrian, pilgrim and poet, magnificently illuminating the borough''s historical and spiritual life''\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Remarkable, compelling, bristles with unexpected, frequently lurid life. On Sinclair''s territory there''s nobody to touch him . . . a gonzo Samuel Pepys''\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIain Sinclair is the author of \u003ci\u003eDownriver\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); \u003ci\u003eLandor''s Tower\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWhite Chappell, Scarlet Tracings\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLights Out for the Territory\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLud Heat\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRodinsky''s Room\u003c\/i\u003e (with Rachel Lichtenstein); \u003ci\u003eRadon Daughters;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLondon Orbital\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDining on Stones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGhost Milk\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eLondon: City of Disappearances\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318727647614,"sku":"NW9780141012742","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141012742.jpg?v=1778238007","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/hackney-that-rose-red-empire","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}