Landor's Tower

Iain Sinclair is without doubt one of our greatest prose stylists and this is a wonderful piece of reading. It has a lot of narratives running through it but, like life, not all of them cry out of be resolved. As is usual with Sinclair, there are dozens of stories lurking just beneath the surface. This bizarre picaresque, in which the central character has truck with rogues and vagabonds of various description, is tremendously refreshng for those of us who had becom a bit bored with that most prominent strand of English fiction, which some Americans seem to think is all there is. Sinclair, Moorcock, Ackroyd, Carter. The so-called Cockney Visionaries. All are substantial writers, but Sinclair is the best of them all.Try Downriver before this, if you get the chance. But get this now. You won't regret it.