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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  London Orbital by Iain Sinclair

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  An eccentric literary masterpiece, Iain Sinclair describes a series of journeys he made walking around the M25 beginning and ending at Waltham Abbey. Filled with fascinating historical and literary characters and entertaining, contemporary anecdotes.

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  Hackney, That Rose-red Empire by Iain Sinclair

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  In an impassioned cry intended for the ears of the Olympic committee, Iain Sinclair has written an ode to the borough in which he has lived and roamed for 40 years. A lively combination of his own musings and interviews with local artists, musicians, writers and anarchists.

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  Ghost Milk by Iain Sinclair

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  An ambitious exploration of the derelict, clinical and unloved borderlands of big cities and an impassioned plea to today's architects to consider viable alternatives for the future. Sinclair's jolly digressions may not be for everyone, but who can argue with his claim that Manchester's Trafford Centre 'smells like dead television', and the Millennium Dome is like a 'wind-propelled spacecraft abandoned on a lifeless planet'?