Heap House (Iremonger 1) by Edward Carey
Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items collected from all over London. At the centre is Heap House, a puzzle of houses, castles, homes and mysteries reclaimed from the city and built into a living maze of staircases and scurrying rats.Edward Carey's HEAP HOUSE - delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that a novel for children should be. * Eleanor Catton, winner of the Man Book Prize 2013 *
All of Edward Carey's work is profound and delightful. -- Max Porter
My favourite novel for children published this year was the marvelously funny and inventive HEAP HOUSE * The Guardian *
Astonishing and inventive, it calls out to be read. -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times *
Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale. * The New York Times *
This inventive and continually surprising novel evokes a darkly distorted image of Victorian London which is at once frightening, grotesque and often very funny ... a peculiar but superbly-realised fantasy - the first book in what promises to be an excellent trilogy. * Booktrust - Books We Like *
A rare work of individual brilliance. * Inis magazine *
A deliciously macabre trilogy for middle graders and young teens channels Dickens crossed with Lemony Snicket ... in turns witty, sweet, thoughtful and thrilling-but always off-kilter-and penned with gorgeous, loopy prose just this side of precious. * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *
I am hooked . . . darkly fantastic in a very original way -- Rachel Ayers Nelson * School Library Association *
If this were music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were film, he would be Tim Burton. * Newsday *
Edward Carey is an enormously talented writer... * Publishers Weekly *
IREMONGER torques and tempers our memories of Dickensian London into a singularly jaunty and creepy tale of agreeable misfits. Read it by gas lamp, with a glass of absinthe at your wrist and a fireplace poker by your knee. -- Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked
Fabulously strange and in the tradition of Mervyn Peake... Astonishing and inventive, it calls out to be read. * Sunday Times *
Edward Carey is a writer and illustrator born in Norfolk, England, during an April snowstorm. He has written plays for the theatre in Romania, Lithuania and London.
He is the author of OBSERVATORY MANSIONS, ALVA & IRVA, THE IREMONGER TRILOGY (HEAP HOUSE, LUNGDON and FOULSHAM), LITTLE and THE SWALLOWED MAN. He always draws the characters he writes about but getting the illustrations and writing to agree with each other takes him far too long.
He has lived in England, France, Romania, Lithuania, Germany, Denmark and the United States. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Texas in Austin, which is not near the sea.
Follow Edward on Twitter: @EdwardCarey70 or find out more about his books at edwardcareyauthor.com.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781471401565 |
| ISBN 10 | 1471401561 |
| Title | Heap House (Iremonger 1) |
| Author | Edward Carey |
| Series | Iremonger Trilogy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hot Key Books |
| Year published | 2013-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |