London Orbital

<p><b><i>London Orbital</i> is Iain Sinclair''s exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city</b><br><br><b>''My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English'' John Lanchester, <i>Daily Telegraph</i><br></b><br>Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the ''acoustic footprints'' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you''ve never seen it before.<br><br><b>''A magnum opus, my book of the year. I urge you to read it. In fact, if you''re a Londoner and haven''t read it by the end of next year, I sugges