'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com The 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.

A storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy Pennant, a girl newly arrived from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to destory Clod's world.

V této naprosto originální, fantasmagorické knize sleduje Edward Carey životní kroky Marie Grosholtzové, maličké Švýcarky, která se dostala do revoluční Paříže a nakonec se proměnila v legendární Madame Tussaud. Tento barvitý příběh o revoluci, paměti, ztrátě a lásce vás zavede do tří zemí, setkáte se se ztracenými dětmi, ztracenými rodiči, opičími duchy, krejčovskými pannami, králem, princeznami i doktory a s mužem, který prochodil celou Paříž. Budete se smát, plakat i kulit oči překvapením.

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Norwich, 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...