Edward Carey

LAS COSAS NO SON LO QUE PARECEN. NUNCA CONFÍES EN LAS COSAS. La conclusión magistral de esta trilogía épica y preciosista sobre el sistema de clases británico, las ciudades inundadas de deshechos y u

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 jerarquía

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.

Es 1761, y una nina diminuta y de aspecto bastante extrano nace en un pueblo de Suiza. La llaman Anne Marie, aunque no tardaran en referirse a ella como Little.Pronto la tragedia se cierne sobre su vida: sus padres mueren, y su unica salida es convertirse en aprendiz y sirvienta de un excentrico modelador de cera, el senor Curtius. Esplendidas cabezas de cera la observan desde todos los angulos del taller: Curtius las rellena con trapos y serrin, y las vende por encargo a los hombres mas ricos de Berna.De la Suiza de su infancia a Paris, donde funda con el senor Curtius el primer museo de cera, y mas tarde a Versalles, para asistir a Maria Antonieta en el parto, esta es la asombrosa historia de la modeladora de cera mas ilustre de la Revolucion francesa. Porque la revolucion exige cabezas para su incansable guillotina, y solo ella puede conseguirlas.

Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed "Little." Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employment in the household of reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. Her role soon surpasses that of mere servant as the eccentric doctor takes an interest in his newfound companion and begins to instruct her in the fine art of wax modelling.From the gutters of pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of Versailles, from clutching the still-warm heads of Robespierre's Terror to finding something very like love, Little traces the improbable fortunes of a bloodstained crumb of a thing who went on to shape the world...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEA 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 fable: the story of an impatient father, a rebellious son, and a watery path to forgiveness for the young man known as Pinocchio

There 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 employment in the household of reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. Her role soon surpasses that of mere servant as the eccentric doctor takes an interest in his newfound companion, and begins to instruct her in the fine art of wax modelling. From the gutters of pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of Versailles, from clutching the still-warm heads of Robespierre's Terror to finding something very like love, Little traces the improbable fortunes of a bloodstained crumb of a thing who went on to shape the word...

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.' - NewsdayThe ghastly climax to the gothic Iremonger trilogyThe 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.

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 magazineDark, 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.

LES COSES NO SÓN EL QUE SEMBLEN. NO ET REFIÏS MAI DE LES COSES.Després de la primera part dIremonger: Els secrets de Heap House, arriba el segon volum de la trilogia.Els Iremonger són una família pec

Art, amour, Révolution : le récit dune existence hors du commun.Née à Strasbourg en 1761, la jeune Marie Grosholz, future madame Tussaud, est employée dès son plus jeune âge comme apprentie par un sc

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 m

The city of Entralla along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City 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.

Observatory Mansions was once the Orme familys 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 Careys debut is a novel of immense originality - a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.

"Easily the most brilliant fiction Ive seen this year -- it proves the potential brilliance of the novel form."-- John Fowles, author of The MagusObservatory Mansions, once the Orme familys 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 collection of misfits. By day he is a street performer, earning money as "a statue of whiteness" in the park, wearing white gloves to ensure that his skin never touches anything. He steals items for his museum of significant objects (996 in all), not for their monetary value but because they have been loved, often bringing grief to their erstwhile owners. His bedridden mother, Alice, who has created for herself an alternative time frame called "fiction," and his father, Francis, are among the occupants set apart from the rest of the busy city by their histories, their memories, and their relationships with the other seven inhabitants of the flats.Each of the house dwellers has his or her own story, as seen through Franciss eyes, and the careful routine and harmony of the house are shaken when along comes a new resident, the half-blind, vulnerable Anna Tap. She is sympathetic and resourceful, and slowly the desperately lonely residents begin to open up their long-closed hearts. As the delicate balance of Observatory Mansions begins to shift, Francis finds himself having to protect the secrets of his past and the sanctity of his collection, while growing emotionally closer to Anna.Hailed as no less than a tour de force, Observatory Mansions is a debut novel of immense originality--a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.

A witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse and the mysterious figure who threatens its very survival, from the author of LittleExtraordinary... funny, troubling, playful, magical and vastly energetic A.L. KennedyNorwich, 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 thats truly hers-from the newcomers sinister designs.Teeming with unforgettable characters and illuminated by Careys trademark illustrations, Edith Holler is a surprisingly modern fable of one young womans struggle to escape her familys control and craft her own creative destiny.

Described as haunting by Sunday Times, The Swallowed Man is a dark reimagining of Pinocchio, told from inside the belly of a fish.I am writing this account, in another mans 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.

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.Careys 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.

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEWonderful Max PorterUnmissable Olga TokarczukStartlingly original Times Book of the YearThere is a space between life and death: its called waxworks.Born in Alsace in 1761, the diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed Little. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employment in the household of reclusive anatomist Dr Curtius. Soon the eccentric doctor takes an interest in his odd companion, and he begins to instruct her in the fine art of wax modelling, changing the course of her life.From the gutters of pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of Versailles, from clutching the still-warm heads of the Terror to finding something very like love, Little traces the improbable fortunes of a blood-stained crumb of a thing who went on to be the renowned Madame Tussaud.MORE PRAISE FOR LITTLE:Visceral, vivid and moving GUARDIANA remarkable achievement SUNDAY TIMESDont miss this eccentric charmer MARGARET ATWOODMesmerising IRISH INDEPENDENTA tale as moving as it is macabre MAIL ON SUNDAYDarkly fascinating SUNDAY EXPRESSClever and intriguing DAILY MAILWonderfully weird CELESTE NG

Le nouveau roman de lauteur de Petite." La, dans le ventre du poisson, jai ce journal pour raconter mon histoire. "Parti a la recherche de son fils Pinocchio disparu sans crier gare, Geppetto se retrouve dans le ventre dune baleine. Au sein de ce purgatoire detrempe, plonge dabord dans lobscurite, il parvient a se procurer le minimum vital. Grace a un vieux bateau plein de mysteres, avale lui aussi par le monstre, il trouve de quoi seclairer et de quoi ecrire. Seul comme il ne la jamais ete, il entreprend de raconter ses vies : sa vie davant et sa vie actuelle. Les debris qui chaque jour arrivent dans la gueule de son hote lui offrent de quoi tromper lennui lancinant. De quoi creer, egalement : sculpter, dessiner... tout ce qui permet a un artiste de continuer a vivre.Apres Petite, Edward Carey nous offre un conte de fees pour adultes, qui nest pas sans evoquer lunivers de Tim Burton. Magnifiquement illustre par lauteur, LHomme avale nous offre une reflexion aussi remarquable que singuliere sur la solitude de lartiste et le sens de la vie.