Edward Carey

The Iremonger Trilogy

1 - Heap House (Nov-2014)
2 - Foulsham (Jul-2015)
3 - Lungdon (Nov-2015)

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  Observatory Mansions
  

  • Feb-2001
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  "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 no...

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  Alva & Irva
  

  • Mar-2003
  • / Fantasy
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  Alva and Irva Dapps are identical twin sisters brilliantly portrayed living in an imaginary -- but altogether imaginable -- city. In this inventive tale of creativity, obsession, and passion, Edward Carey touches deftly on the fine line we all walk b...

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  Heap House
  

  • Nov-2014
  • / Historical
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  The Iremonger Trilogy - 1
  

  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 fr...

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  Foulsham: Book Two
  

  • Jul-2015
  • / General Fiction
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  “A deliciously macabre trilogy . . . channels Dickens crossed with Lemony Snicket . . . magnificently creepy.” -- Kirkus (starred review)

  At the Iremonger family offices in the aptly named borough of Foulsham, London's great repository of ...

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  Foulsham
  

  • Jul-2015
  • / Horror
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  The Iremonger Trilogy - 2
  

  At the Iremonger family offices in the aptly named borough of Foulsham, London's great repository of filth, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way to make objects assume the shapes of people, and how to turn people into objects. Clod, whom he s...

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  Lungdon
  

  • Nov-2015
  • / General Fiction
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  The Iremonger Trilogy - 3
  

  The Iremonger family is at large in London, the ruins of the town of Foulsham left burning behind them. They need a new home and they intend to find one. Londoners are beginning to notice bizarre happenings--loved ones disappearing, strange objects a...

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  Little
  

  • Oct-2018
  • / Historical
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  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 i...

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  The Swallowed Man
  

  • Feb-2021
  • / Psychological Suspense
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  A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE“A strange and tender parable . . . All of Edward Carey's work is profound and delightful.”   -- Max Porter, author of LannyThe ingenious storyteller Edward Carey returns to reimagine a time-honored ...

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  Edith Holler
  

  • Nov-2023
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse -- and the mysterious figure who threatens the theater's very survivalThe year is 1901. England’s beloved queen has died, and her agi...

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  Carey & Hart's Catalog
  

  • / General Fiction
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  Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Carey & Hart's Catalog (1852). It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.

  This is a new and freshly published e...

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