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(b.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.
Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction
Novels
Observatory Mansions (2000)
Alva and Irva (2003)
Little (2018)
The Swallowed Man (2020)
Edith Holler (2023)
Alva and Irva (2003)
Little (2018)
The Swallowed Man (2020)
Edith Holler (2023)
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Edward Carey recommends
Doom Painting (2026)
A K Blakemore
"An enormous achievement. A. K. Blakemore has taken a trip back to 1381 and shown us all England from the lowest peasant grubbing in the mud to the young and hapless monarch in all his fumbling insecurity... A novel so dark, so full, so brave, so brimming with life (and death) and love and pain that I found myself often putting it down just to wonder at this enormous thing, at all these lives... A big bold, brilliant, brutal, beautiful masterpiece."
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh (2025)
Colwill Brown
"A big, brave, beautiful scream of a book. It is haunting and hilarious and heartbreaking, so tender, so raw, so deeply felt, so full of insight and sympathy and, above all else, so exquisitely written. We Pretty Pieces of Flesh is a rare wonder of a book and Colwill Brown is a writer of astounding originality."
The Atlas of Remedies (2024)
Paul Jaskunas
"A deeply moving and tense look into the lives of immigrants in America and Europe at the dawn of the twentieth century. A page-turning flight and a terrifying and atmospheric journey through the gutters of New York City, Jaskunas gives us a heartbreaking, exhilarating story of two countries and one divided family. Written with acute observation, this is a beautifully told tale of separation, hardship and longing that will move and enthral. I loved these people and never wanted to leave them."
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