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  | | B A Year in Plagues and Pencils by Edward Carey Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2021 by Gallic Books, Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-913547-20-2, ISBN: 1-913547-20-5 "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." |
 | | Observatory Mansions(Reprint) A Novel by Edward Carey Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70923-4, ISBN: 0-375-70923-1 ""Easily the most brilliant fiction I've seen this year -- it proves the potential brilliance of the novel form."-- John Fowles, author of The MagusObservatory Mansions, once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral home set on beautiful grounds, is now a crumbling apartment block stranded on a traffic island, peopled with eccentrics.Thirty-seven-year-old Francis Orme lives in Observatory Mansions with his peculiar parents and a collectio ..." |
 | | Heap House(1st Edition) (Iremonger Trilogy) by Edward Carey Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2013 by Hot Key ISBN-13: 978-1-4714-0156-5, ISBN: 1-4714-0156-1 "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. The Iremongers are a mean and cruel family, robust and hardworking, but Clod has an illness. He can hear the objects whispering. His birth object, a universal ..." |
 | | OBSERVATORY MANSIONS(1st Edition) by Edward Carey Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2000 by Crown Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-609-60680-3, ISBN: 0-609-60680-8 "Edward Carey's debut novel Observatory Mansions has a touch of Gormenghast about it. A "small and peculiar group of people" live together in a decaying four storey cube in neo-classical design. It was once magnificent, set in beautiful grounds, but has now been transformed into flats, an island within a surge of traffic. The people themselves are anchored in disassociation, set apart from the rest of the busy city by their histories, th ..." |
 | | Little by Edward Carey, Luke Bird Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Aardvark Bureau ISBN-13: 978-1-910709-53-5, ISBN: 1-910709-53-0 "‘A startlingly original novel’ — Times, Book of the MonthThere is a space between life and death: it’s called waxworks Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed ‘Little’. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employmet 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 fin ..." |
 | | Little by Edward Carey, Luke Bird Paperback, 430 Pages, Published 2018 by Aardvark Bureau ISBN-13: 978-1-910709-56-6, ISBN: 1-910709-56-5 |
 | | Little(Reprint) A Novel by Edward Carey Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2019 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-0-525-53433-4, ISBN: 0-525-53433-4 "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. In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, p ..." |
 | | Foulsham(1st Edition) Book Two (The Iremonger Trilogy) by Edward Carey Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by Harry N. Abrams ISBN-13: 978-1-4683-1178-5, ISBN: 1-4683-1178-6 "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, ..." |
 | | Heap House by Edward Carey Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2015 by Harpertrophy ISBN-13: 978-1-4434-2423-3, ISBN: 1-4434-2423-4 |
 | | Foulsham The Iremonger Trilogy 2 by Edward Carey Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by Hot Key Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4714-0163-3, ISBN: 1-4714-0163-4 "'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com 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 w ..." |
 | | Heap House(1st Edition) Book One (The Iremonger Trilogy) by Edward Carey Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2014 by Overlook Juvenile ISBN-13: 978-1-4683-0953-9, ISBN: 1-4683-0953-6 "Welcome to Heap House, the sprawling, slipshod maze of a mansion, built on the “Heaps,” a collection of forgotten trash and curios. Young Clod Iremonger and his eccentric family, the “kings of mildew, moguls of mold,” made their fortune from this collected detritus. The Iremongers are an odd old family, each the owner of the birth object they must keep with them at all times. Clod is perhaps the oddest of all―his gift and his curse is t ..." |
 | | Foulsham (Iremonger Trilogy) by Edward Carey Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2014 by Hot Key Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4714-0160-2, ISBN: 1-4714-0160-X "'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com 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 wa ..." |
 | | Heap House The Iremonger Trilogy 1 by Edward Carey Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2014 by Hot Key Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4714-0159-6, ISBN: 1-4714-0159-6 "'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com The Iremongers have taken up what was not wanted and wanted it. 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. The Iremongers are a mean and cruel family, ..." |
 | | Alva and Irva(Updated) The Twins Who Saved a City by Edward Carey Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-39605-9, ISBN: 0-330-39605-6 "Playwright Edward Carey's novel Alva & Irva is a spirited, inventive tale with a vein of half-ironic sadness running through it that brings to mind the works of other European masters of this genre, namely Günter Grass, Italio Calvino and Milan Kundera. Named for twin girls who create a plasticine model of their small European city, Alva & Irva is in part the life story of these eccentric twins and also a guidebook to the fictional city ..." |
 | | Little by Edward Carey, Luke Bird Hardcover, 380 Pages, Published 2018 by Aardvark Bureau ISBN-13: 978-1-910709-39-9, ISBN: 1-910709-39-5 |
 | | Edith Holler (Hardcover) by Edward Carey Hardcover, Published 2023 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-0-593-18890-3, ISBN: 0-593-18890-X |
 | | The Swallowed Man A Novel by Edward Carey 208 Pages, Published 2020 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-0-593-18887-3, ISBN: 0-593-18887-X "" --Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny The ingenious storyteller Edward Carey returns to reimagine a time-honored fable: the story of an impatient father, a rebellious son, and a watery path to forgiveness for ..." |
 | | Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2019 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-5290-3133-1, ISBN: 1-5290-3133-8 "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 ..." |
 | | Little A Novel by Edward Carey Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2018 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-0-525-53432-7, ISBN: 0-525-53432-6 ""An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." —Gregory Maguire, New York Times-bestselling author of WickedThe wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who tran ..." |
 | | Lungdon by Edward Carey Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2016 by Hot Key Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4714-0167-1, ISBN: 1-4714-0167-7 "'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com 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 ma ..." |
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