Iain Sinclair is a writer and filmmaker based in East London. His books include the novels Downriver (1991) and Radon Daughters (1994), and the speculative documentaries, Lights Out for the Territory (1997), London Orbital (2002) and Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire (2009). His most recent book, Black Apples of Gower, was an unexpected return to the country of his birth, Wales. He is working on the endgame of a long sequence, The Last London.