The Iremongers have taken up what was not wanted and wanted it. Clod 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. The Iremongers are a mean and cruel...(展开全部)

艾德华‧凯瑞（Edward Carey），英国剧作家、小说家、插画家。曾在伦敦、立陶宛、罗马尼亚剧场工作，在马来西亚与皮影戏大师合作。着有两本成人小说并亲手绘制插图：《望楼馆追想》（Observatory Mansions）、初选提名IMPAC都柏林文学奖《Alva & Irva》，皆译成多国语言出版。现居美国德州奥斯汀，因为想念寒冷阴沉的感觉，创作了《艾尔蒙哲三部曲》。

爱德华·凯瑞，英国剧作家、小说家、插画家，曾在各国剧场工作。著有《望楼馆追想》《Alva & Irva》《艾尔蒙哲三部曲》（本书为《艾尔蒙哲三部曲》第二部）等，并亲手绘制插图。其中《望楼馆追想》获得IMPAC都柏林文学奖提名。目前，凯瑞所有小说皆已被译为多国语言出版，其 童话般的故事风格广受全世界读者喜爱。

艾德华‧凯瑞（Edward Carey），英国剧作家、小说家、插画家。曾在伦敦、立陶宛、罗马尼亚剧场工作，在马来西亚与皮影戏大师合作。着有两本成人小说并亲手绘制插图：《望楼馆追想》（Observatory Mansions）、初选提名IMPAC都柏林文学奖《Alva & Irva》，皆译成多国语言出版。现居美国德州奥斯汀，因为想念寒冷阴沉的感觉，创作了《艾尔蒙哲三部曲》。

艾德华‧凯瑞（Edward Carey），英国剧作家、小说家、插画家。曾在伦敦、立陶宛、罗马尼亚剧场工作，在马来西亚与皮影戏大师合作。着有两本成人小说并亲手绘制插图：《望楼馆追想》（Observatory Mansions）、初选提名IMPAC都柏林文学奖《Alva & Irva》，皆译成多国语言出版。现居美国德州奥斯汀，因为想念寒冷阴沉的感觉，创作了《艾尔蒙哲三部曲》。

Don't even think about reading House Harkonnen without reading its predecessor Dune: House Atreides; anyone who does so risks sinking in the sands between Frank Herbert's original Dune and this prequel trilogy by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson. The purist argument that had Frank Herbert wanted to go backwards he would have done so is, at least in part, negated by t...(展开全部)

A man returns to his native China to find upheaval in both his homeland and his family in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son of a famous general and grandson of the patriarch of The Good Earth, leaves for America to...(展开全部)

A man returns to his native China to find upheaval in both his homeland and his family in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son of a famous general and grandson of the patriarch of The Good Earth, leaves for America to...(展开全部)

"The Corfu Trilogy" consists of the popular classic, "My Family and Other Animals" and its delightful sequels, "Birds, Beasts and Relatives" and "The Garden of the Gods". All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentic English family who moved there. For Gerald, the budding zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teemin...(展开全部)

派特·巴克 Pat Barker 1943年5月8日生于英国约克郡蒂斯河畔索纳比一个工薪阶层家庭。1962—1965年在伦敦政治经济学院学习国际关系史。巴克在第一个孩子出生后才开始写作，早期的小说关注英国工薪阶层女性。《重生》三部曲是她创作的一个转折点和里程碑，入选布克 奖40周年最佳小说、“十大历史小说”（《观察家报》）。《重生》于1997年被搬上银幕且获多项电影奖项提名，2014年被改编成舞台剧；《门中眼》获1993年卫报小说奖；《幽灵路》获1995年布克奖。 巴克于2000年被授予大英帝国指挥官勋章（CBE）。她现居英国达勒姆郡。