Author(s): Iain Sinclair

Fiction

The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of failed industry and rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers, high-rent low life, broken criminals and reborn lunatics pick over the river's detritus. They examine the wound, hoping to expose the cause of the city's affliction . . .