{"product_id":"heap-house-iremonger-1-9781471401596","title":"Heap House Iremonger 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClod 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward 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 *\u003cbr\u003eMy favourite novel for children published this year was the marvelously funny and inventive HEAP HOUSE * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eAstonishing and inventive, it calls out to be read. -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eDark and wildly original urban fantasy tale. * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA rare work of individual brilliance. * Inis magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA 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 *","brand":"Hot Key Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867194077527,"sku":"9781471401596","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781471401596.jpg?v=1722282141","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heap-house-iremonger-1-9781471401596","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}