Dining on Stones av Iain Sinclair

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<p><b><i>Dining on Stones</i> is Iain Sinclair''s sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs<br><br></b>Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his search, he is haunted by ghosts: of the dead and the not-so dead; demanding wives and ex-wives; East End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man''s fractured psyche piece by piece, Dining on Stones is a puzzle and a quest - for both writer and reader.<br><br>''Exhilarating, wonderfully funny, greatly unsettling - Sinclair on top form'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><br>''Prose of almost incantatory power, cut with Chandleresque pithiness'' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>''Spectacular: the work of a man with the power to see things as they are, and magnify that vision with a clarity that i