Edward Carey

"The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud" --

A Novel

Little

The one-time Orme ancestral home is transformed into a dilapidated apartment block inhabited by a host of eccentric characters, including Alice Orme, who never leaves her bed; her husband, who spends his time in his old armchair; and their son, Francis, who never touches anything without the protection of white gloves and who steals objects treasured by their owners. A first novel. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Observatory Mansions

A storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy Pennant, a girl newly arrived from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to destory Clod's world.

Heap House

I am writing this account, in another man's book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten. I have been eaten, yet I am living still. 'Art objects live in the belly of this marvellous novel, images swallowed by text, sustained by a sublime and loving imagination. Like all Edward Carey's work The Swallowed Man is profound and delightful. It is a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting and art-making' Max Porter 'Strange and lovely' Rhik Samadder 'A beautiful and dark meditation on fatherhood, mercy, redemption and the alchemy of isolation. Strange, moving and musical, it's a delight' A. L. Kennedy From the acclaimed author of Little comes this beautiful and haunting imagining of the years Geppetto spends within the belly of a sea beast. Drawing upon the Pinocchio story while creating something entirely his own, Carey tells an unforgettable tale of fatherly love and loss, pride and regret, and of the sustaining power of art and imagination.

The Swallowed Man

Foulsham, London's great filth repository, is bursting at the seams. In the Iremonger family offices, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger broods: in his misery and fury at the people of London, he has found a way of making everyday objects assume human shape, and turning real people into objects. Abandoned in the depths of the Heaps, Lucy Pennant has been rescued by a terrifying creature, Binadit Iremonger - more animal than human. She is desperate and determined to find Clod. But unbeknownst to her, Clod has become a golden sovereign and is 'lost'. He is being passed as currency from hand to hand all around Foulsham, and yet everywhere people are searching for him, desperate to get hold of this dangerous Iremonger, who, it is believed, has the power to bring the mighty Umbitt down.

Foulsham

Edith Holler

Along with his parents and other equally maladjusted misfits and eccentrics, Francis Orme lives in Observatory Mansions — once a magnificent ancestral home with beautiful grounds, now a crumbling apartment block. In a blocked-off corridor of the basement is Francis’s Exhibition: a carefully catalogued and private display of hundreds of items he has stolen, all of them once precious to their original owners. But the arrival of a new tenant upsets the delicate balance of Observatory Mansions, and Francis finds himself taking drastic measures to protect the secrets of his past, the sanctity of his collection and his mission of love.

The delightfully macabre, astonishingly original trilogy reaches its thrilling conclusion The dirt town of Foulsham has been destroyed, its ashes still smoldering. Darkness lies heavily over the city, the sun has not come up for days, and inside the houses of people throughout the capital, ordinary objects have begun to move. Strange new people run through the darkened streets. There are rumours of a terrible contagion. From the richest mansion to the poorest slum people have disappeared. The police have been instructed to carry arms. And rats—there are rats everywhere. Someone has stolen a certain plug. Someone is lighting a certain box of matches. All will come tumbling down. The Iremongers are in London. PRAISE FOR HEAP HOUSE, BOOK 1 IN THE IREMONGER TRILOGY A New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews "Best Teen Book of 2014" A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Publishers Weekly Indie Pick: Big Books from Small Presses An NPR Best Book of 2014 “Heap House is weird, yes. Spectacularly so.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Whimsically gothic.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES “Heap House is the first volume in the Iremonger Trilogy, and its cliffhanger ending is perfectly maddening. It's cruel, really, of the publisher to release just one.” —NEWSDAY “Full of strange magic, sly humor, and odd, melancholy characters, this trilogy opener, peppered with portraits illustrated by Carey in a style reminiscent of Peake’s own, should appeal to ambitious readers seeking richly imagined and more-than-a-little-sinister fantasy.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) “Channels Dickens crossed with Lemony Snicket. . . . A Gothic tale in turns witty, sweet, thoughtful and thrilling—but always off-kilter—and penned with gorgeous, loopy prose. Suspense and horror gradually accumulate into an avalanche of a climax. . . . Magnificently creepy.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)

Lungdon (Iremonger #3)

Mała

Hurda Köskü

Book Two

LAS COSAS NO SON LO QUE PARECEN. NUNCA CONFÍES EN LAS COSAS. Los Iremonger son una familia peculiar. Durante generaciones han permanecido en HEAP HOUSE, su laberíntica mansión, donde las jerarquías y los matrimonios vienen impuestos. En las plantas superiores vive la familia; en las inferiores, el servicio. Rodean la mansión los CÚMULOS: montones de basura proveniente de todo Londres que se extienden hasta donde alcanza la vista. Todos los miembros de la familia perpetúan una tradición, la de vivir ligados a un OBJETO DE NACIMIENTO que deben proteger con su vida. Los objetos parecen susurrar algo, pero solo Clod Iremonger, el ESCUCHADOR, es capaz de oírlos. La llegada de Lucy Pennant, nueva sirvienta de la mansión, lo cambiará todo. Porque en el horizonte de Heap House se adivina una gran tempestad. Y los secretos de la familia Iremonger están a punto de saltar por los aires para siempre.

Trilogía IREMONGER 1: Los secretos de Heap House

'I blame the pencil. I hadn't meant to do it. I wasn't thinking. It just happened that way.' In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey published a sketch on social media with a plan to keep posting a drawing a day from his family home in Austin, Texas, until life returned to normal. One hundred and fifty pencil stubs later, he was still drawing. Carey's hand moved with world events, chronicling pandemic and politics. It reached into the past, taking inspiration from history, and escaped grim reality through flights of vivid imagination and studies of the natural world. The drawings became a way of charting time, of moving forward, and maintaining connection at a time of isolation. This remarkable collection of words and drawings from the acclaimed author of Little and The Swallowed Man charts a tumultuous year in pencil, finding beauty amid the horror of extraordinary times.

B: A Year in Plagues and Pencils

"Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives at Heap House, his family's mansion at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items whose ever-shifting masses have been known to swallow people alive. The Iremongers are an odd old family, each the owner of a Birth Object they must keep with them at all times. Clod is perhaps the oddest of all--his gift and his curse is that he can hear all of the objects of Heap House whispering. Yes, a storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the house's many objects are showing strange signs of life. Clod is on the cusp of being 'trousered' and married off (unhappily) to his cousin Pinalippy when he meets the plucky orphan servant Lucy Pennant, with whose help he begins to uncover the dark secrets of his family's empire."--

Casa Heap

"At the Iremonger mansion, set in the trash heaps of an alternate Victorian London, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way to make objects assume the shapes of people, and how to turn people into objects. Will outcast grandson Clod--transformed into a gold coin--and servant girl Lucy (now a discarded button) be found and returned to human form?"--

Orașul gunoaielor

Identical twin sisters who live in the city of Entralia, Irva and Alva feel each other's emotions and think each other's thoughts as they construct a model of the city on a scale that will accommodate the desires of both sisters.

The Twins who Saved a City

Alva & Irva

Förtrollande roman om vaxmodeller och revolution i 1700-talets Paris

Petite

I segreti di Heap House

The city of Entralla âe" along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City âe" is not somewhere you are likely to have visited. Only one guidebook to the place exists, despite its historic landmarks and the considerable civic pride of its inhabitants. Alva and Irva are identical twin sisters, and Entralla is their home. By nature, Alva is an explorer, and longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom every step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together and cannot survive without each other. It is when Irva refuses to leave the house at all that the major work of their lives begins: Alva wanders the city streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reporting her findings to Irva, who painstakingly recreates a miniature Entralla. In Alva and Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination; the twins are mesmerizing heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation.

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