Ghost Milk : Calling Time on the Grand Project

Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots. Iain Sinclair exposes the dark underbelly of the Olympics 2012, laying bare the human consequences and mourning the disruption of communities, the erasure of history and of a sense of place and continuity.

This is a road map to a possible future as well as Sinclair's most powerful statement yet on the throwaway impermanence of the present. The archetypal whistleblower, he pricks vainglorious and self-promoting hyperbole with his characteristic visual poetry and tart black comedy, extracting striking insights from even the most hopeless of London locations.

Described as 'wonderful, sharp, amusing, grippingly atmospheric' by the Daily Telegraph and 'a superb chronicle of an improbable dream that has descended to a nightmare' by Dan Cruickshank, this is essential reading for all Londoners curious about their city - and anyone fascinated by Sinclair's unmatched literary excavations of London's memory.