'Delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical...' - Eleanor Catton

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 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

Edward Carey is a playwright, novelist and illustrator. He has worked for the theatre in London, Lithuania and Romania and with a shadow puppet master in Malaysia. He has written two illustrated novels for adults - OBSERVATORY MANSIONS and ALVA AND IRVA - and both have been translated into many different languages. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he wrote the Iremonger Trilogy because he missed feeling cold and gloomy. Follow Edward on Twitter: @EdwardCarey70 or find out more about his books at edwardcareyauthor.com.