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|title= Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report

|author= Iain Sinclair

|buy= Yes

|borrow= Yes

|pages=480

|publisher= Hamish Hamilton

|date= February 2009

|isbn=978-0241142165

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''Documentary fiction'' is what Iain Sinclair oxymoronically calls this book. It's a lot of other things too: autobiography, history, psychogeography to name but three. His ''Hackney book'' as he self-referentially calls it throughout, is a dense collage of reportage and ''inaccurate and inventive'' transcriptions of interviews, peopled by film-makers, novelists, politicians and painters, not to mention booksellers, barbers and bus drivers.

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