Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report by Iain Sinclair

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report

Iain Sinclair

581 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative medium-paced

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Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry. Persistently revived, reinvented, betrayed, it has become a symbol of inner-city chaos, crime and poverty.

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