{"product_id":"dining-on-stones","title":"Dining On Stones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDining on Stones\u003c\/i\u003e is Iain Sinclair''s sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAndrew 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Exhilarating, wonderfully funny, greatly unsettling - Sinclair on top form''  \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Prose of almost incantatory power, cut with Chandleresque pithiness''  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''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''  \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\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":57548950831486,"sku":"NW9780141014821","price":14.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141014821.jpg?v=1781521153","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/dining-on-stones","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}