From little beginnings: the extraordinary story of a singular, diminutive crumb of a servant girl turned entertainment mogul. von Carey, Edward

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...

"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...

Once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not...

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

Clod Iremonger is not supposed to, but he hears a brass door handle saying, "Alice Higgs". And his birth object, a universal bath plug, constantly calls out, "James Henry Hayward". The rest of the Iremonger family would rather the...

Das Buch "Swallowed Man" von Edward Carey ist eine kreative und dunkle Wiedererzählung der klassischen Geschichte von Pinocchio. Die Geschichte wird aus der Perspektive von Geppetto erzählt, der in einem riesigen Fisch gefangen ist....