'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com 'Astonishing and inventive, it calls out to be read' - The Sunday Times 'Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale' - New York Times 'All of Edward Carey's work is profound and delightful' - Max Porter 'If this were music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were film, he would be Tim Burton.' - Newsday The ghastly climax to the gothic Iremonger trilogy 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. Inside the houses 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 have come to London.

Iremonger Trilogy

Lungdon (Iremonger 3)

'All of Edward Carey's work is profound and delightful' - Max Porter 'Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale' - The New York Times 'If this were music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were film, he would be Tim Burton.' - Newsday 'A rare work of individual brilliance' - Inis magazine Dark, gothic and delightfully macabre, the Iremonger family return... Foulsham, London's great filth repository, is bursting at the seams. The walls that keep the muck in are buckling, rubbish is spilling over the top, back into the city that it came from. 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. But all around the city, things, everyday things, are twitching into life...

Foulsham (Iremonger 2)

Observatory Mansions was once the Orme family's ancestral home. Now it is a crumbing apartment block, stranded on a traffic island and peopled with eccentrics. Alice Orme never stirs from her bed, her husband lives in his old armchair, and Francis, their son, practises his own art of stillness as a human statue in the centre of the decaying city. He lives by his Law of White Gloves, never touching anything without their protection, and collects items for his secret exhibition - items stolen, not because of any monetary worth, but because they are treasured by the owners. This careful routine is shaken by the arrival of a new resident, Anna Tap, half blind and vulnerable, but with a strange gift for inspiring trust. As the other residents gradually open their hearts to her, Francis realises he must act before she forces him to confront his own past, and before she finds out about the mysterious final object in his exhibition. But as the currents of memory and desire swirl within Observatory Mansions' crumbling walls, it seems the sinister Porter has plans of his own... Edward Carey's debut is a novel of immense originality - a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.

Observatory Mansions

Author and illustrator Edward Carey presents a paean to connection at a time of isolation: a year of daily lockdown drawings posted on social media from his home in Texas.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.

Norwich, 1901: Edith Holler spends her days among the eccentric denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave.Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, young Edith decides to write a play of her own about Mawther Meg, a monstrous figure said to have used the blood of countless children to make the local delicacy, Beetle Spread. But when her father suddenly announces his engagement to a peculiar woman named Margaret Unthank, Edith scrambles to protect her father, the theatre, and her play-the one thing that's truly hers-from the newcomer's sinister designs.Teeming with unforgettable characters and illuminated by Carey's trademark illustrations, Edith Holler is a surprisingly modern fable of one young woman's struggle to escape her family's control and craft her own creative destiny.

Edith Holler

From the gutters of pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of Versailles, Little is the unforgettable story of how a ‘bloodstained crumb of a girl’ went on to shape the world in Wax... Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed ‘Little’. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employment in Bern, Switzerland, under the charge of reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. In time the unlikely pair form an unlikely bond, and together they pursue an unusual passion: the fine art of wax-modelling. Forced to flee their city, the doctor and his protégée head for the seamy streets of Paris where they open an exhibition hall for their uncanny creations. Though revolution approaches, the curious-minded flock to see the wax heads, eager to scrutinise the faces of royalty and reprobates alike. At 'The Cabinet of Doctor Curtius', heads are made, heads are displayed, and a future is built from wax. “Don't miss this eccentric charmer” - MARGARET ATWOOD “This historical novel about the wax-sculptor who would become the world-renowned Madame Tussaud looks uncannily like a real-life classic” - Washington Post

Little

The Iremongers are a mean and cruel family, robust and hardworking, living in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items. A storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy, 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 destroy Clod's world.

Heap House

LES COSES NO SÓN EL QUE SEMBLEN. NO ET REFIÏS MAI DE LES COSES. Els Iremonger són una família peculiar. Durant generacions han viscut a HEAP HOUSE, la seva laberíntica mansió, on les jerarquies i els matrimonis els venen imposats. A les plantes superiors hi viu la família; a les inferiors, el servei. Al voltant de la mansió hi ha els CÚMULS: piles de brossa que ve de tot Londres i s'estén fins on arriba la vista. Tots els membres de la família perpetuen una tradició, la de viure lligats a un OBJECTE DE NAIXEMENT que han de protegir amb la vida. Els objectes sembla que murmuren alguna cosa, però només en Clod Iremonger, l'ESCOLTADOR, és capaç de sentir-los. L'arribada de la Lucy Pennant, una nova minyona de la mansió, ho canviarà tot. Perquè a l'horitzó de Heap House s'endevina una gran tempesta. I tots els secrets de la família Iremonger estan a punt de saltar pels aires per sempre.

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Trilogia IREMONGER 1: Els secrets de Heap House

LES COSES NO SÓN EL QUE SEMBLEN. NO ET REFIÏS MAI DE LES COSES. Després de la primera part d'Iremonger: Els secrets de Heap House, arriba el segon volum de la trilogia. Els Iremonger són una família peculiar. La mansió de HEAP HOUSE i les seves mentides han quedat enrere. Ara en Clod, l'escoltador, i la serventa Lucy Pennant han sucumbit a la maledicció familiar i s'han convertit en uns objectes indefensos: en Clod, que ara és una moneda d'or que molts es volen apropiar, va cap a FOULSHAM, la ciutat infecta de l'altra banda del mur; la Lucy, transformada en un botó insignificant, espera abandonada en la immundícia dels CÚMULS que algú es fixi en ella i la tregui d'allà. Si com a mínim poguessin continuar junts. Si com a mínim trobessin ajuda i poguessin, per fi, enfrontar-se als que volen eliminar-los. Com tots els llocs maleïts, FOULSHAM ha creat molts monstres. Alguns ni tan sols recorden qui són. Però allà no hi ha justícia ni esperança, allà on uns pocs decideixen el futur dels innocents, els monstres poden ser els millors aliats.

Trilogia IREMONGER 2: La caiguda de Foulsham

In 1761 wordt in de Elzas een klein, onooglijk meisje geboren: Marie Grosholtz. De zonderlinge Zwitserse anatoom dr. Curtius neemt haar onder zijn hoede en brengt haar de beginselen van het werken met was bij. Door omstandigheden komen de twee terecht in de onderbuik van Parijs, waar ze hun bijzondere creaties voor het eerst tentoonstellen in een wassenbeeldenmuseum. De Franse Revolutie staat voor de deur, maar dat weerhoudt de nieuwsgierige menigte er niet van de beroemde en beruchte Franse koppen van dichtbij te komen bekijken. De wereld van was blijkt een gouden toekomst te hebben. Van de goot in prerevolutionair Parijs tot aan het hof van Versailles. Edward Carey vertelt het onvergetelijke levensverhaal van een wonderlijk, klein meisje voor wie niemand een stuiver gaf maar dat uitgroeide tot de beroemdste vrouw die de wereld in beelden wist te vangen.

Petite

In the aptly named borough of Foulsham, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way of making everyday objects assume human shape, and turning real people into objects. Lucy Pennant has been discarded as a clay button, abandoned in the Heaps. Meanwhile, Clod has been turned into a gold coin and is being passed as currency through the town. Everywhere people are searching for Clod, who, it is believed, has the power to bring the mighty Umbitt down.

Iremonger

Foulsham

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. 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. FRONT - Author of Little, a Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

The Swallowed Man

Foulsham has been destroyed. Darkness lies heavily over the city; the sun has not come up for days. Inside the houses throughout the capital, ordinary objects have begun to move. 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. Someone has stolen a certain plug. Someone is lighting a certain box of matches. All will come tumbling down. The Iremongers have come to London.

Lungdon

"Verpassen Sie nicht dieses charmant-exzentrische Buch von Edward Carey, von der berühmten Madame Tussaud selbst erzählt, über ihr merkwürdiges Leben und ihre Zeit, einschließlich der auch für sie beinahe tödlichen Französischen Revolution, der Hauptsaison für Köpfe!" Margaret Atwood 1761 wird ein winziges Mädchen namens Marie Grosholtz im Elsass geboren. Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern wird sie Gehilfin des exzentrischen Wachsbildners Doktor Curtius in Bern, der sie mit nach Paris nimmt, wo sie mit der dominanten Witwe Picot und ihrem stillen Sohn Edmond in einem leerstehenden Affenhaus Quartier beziehen. Sobald sie das Gebäude in einen Ausstellungsraum für Wachsfiguren und Wachsköpfe verwandelt haben, wird ihr Handwerk zur Sensation und führt Marie bis an den Königshof in Versailles. Das Geschäft mit den Wachsköpfen berühmter und berüchtigter Zeitgenossen, großer Philosophen und notorischer Verbrecher blüht. Doch in Paris werden die Paläste gestürmt und das Volk verlangt nach Köpfen – genau das, was die Wachsbildner liefern! Der zauberhafte, mit vielen Zeichnungen Careys versehene, feinsinnige und lebenspralle Roman erzählt die abenteuerliche Geschichte der Frau, die als Madame Tussaud zu Weltruhm gelangte: Eine unschuldig-weise kleine Madame Courage zwischen Philosophen und Häftlingen, Helden und Schurken, die sie allesamt in Wachs zu fassen vermochte.

Das außergewöhnliche Leben eines Dienstmädchens namens PETITE, besser bekannt als Madame Tussaud

LAS COSAS NO SON LO QUE PARECEN. NUNCA CONFÍES EN LAS COSAS. Tras la primera entrega: Los secretos de Heap House, llega el segundo volumen de la trilogía. Los Iremonger son una familia peculiar. La mansión de HEAP HOUSE y sus mentiras quedaron atrás. Ahora Clod, el escuchador, y la sirvienta Lucy Pennant han sucumbido a la maldición familiar y se han convertido en indefensos objetos: Clod, una moneda de oro a la que muchos quieren echar el guante, se dirige a FOULSHAM, la infecta ciudad al otro lado del muro; Lucy, transformada en un insignificante botón, espera abandonada en la inmundicia de los CÚMULOS a que alguien repare en ella y la saque de allí. Si al menos pudieran mantenerse unidos. Si al menos encontrasen ayuda y pudieran, por fin, enfrentarse a quienes desean acabar con ellos. Como todos los lugares malditos, FOULSHAM ha creado muchos monstruos. Algunos ni siquiera recuerdan quiénes fueron. Pero allí donde no hay justicia ni esperanza, donde unos pocos deciden el futuro de los inocentes, los monstruos pueden ser los mejores aliados.

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Trilogía IREMONGER 2: La caída de Foulsham

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

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