London chronicler and Haggerston resident Iain Sinclair talks to Francesca Panetta about Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report. It's his eagerly awaited ‘documentary-fiction’ based on forty years of living and working in Hackney, a borough he describes variously as exotic, seductive, radical, difficult and bloody-minded. Hear about the author’s walks with photographer Stephen Gill and fellow psycho-geographer Will Self, the mysterious world of Kingsland barbershops, and how the Olympic vision is set to erase Sinclair’s own beloved topography. The book is published in February but you can pre-order your copy here and here. Read the Hackney Citizen’s interview with Iain Sinclair in their current issue, available free at selected locations, including all public libraries in the borough
