About the Book

Kit Ingram's X Coranto is a layered, formally inventive work that reanimates the history of a single South London street through fractured reportage, fictional memoir, and archival collage.

Book Synopsis

Kit Ingram's X Coranto is a layered, formally inventive work that reanimates the history of a single South London street through fractured reportage, fictional memoir, and archival collage. Spanning centuries, it stitches together newspaper clippings, personal fragments, and imagined monologues to expose the recurring violences-domestic, institutional, economic-that shape a place and its people. Ingram balances satire and sorrow with unsettling fluency, excavating both the spectacle and the banality of lived experience. The result is a portrait of urban life as palimpsest: ghosted, unstable, and persistently unresolved.