{"product_id":"downriver","title":"Downriver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDownriver \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Thames runs through \u003ci\u003eDownriver \u003c\/i\u003elike an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of industry and rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers, high-rent lowlife, broken criminals and reborn lunatics picks over the rivers detritus. They examine the wound, hoping to expose the cause of the city's affliction . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Remarkable: part apocalyptic documentary, part moth-eaten ghost story, part detective story. Inventive and stylish, Sinclair is one of the most interesting of contemporary novelists'  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of those idiosyncratic literary texts that revivify the language, so darn quotable as to be the reader's delight and the reviewer's nightmare'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'Crazy, dangerous, prophetic'  \u003cb\u003eAngela Carter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466526138741,"sku":"9780141014852","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141014852.jpg?v=1785654584","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/downriver","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}