Iremonger Series

Today I was sent the full cover for Foulsham, here’s what it looks like. Thank you so much Jan Bielecki for all your patience.

Here, but for a couple of tweaks is the cover for Iremonger Book 2.

I’m so delighted to say that this winged elephant by which I mean the Overlook Press will publish the Iremongers in the U.S. They are the American publishers of Mervyn Peake, and have stuck to his original covers (my favourite covers in all the world) and even added one that looks as if Peake designed… Read more »

I haven’t posted anything for ages. I’ve been busy writing (I think, I hope) the sequel to Heap House which will be called FOULSHAM. I’ve just started the illustrations: Whilst I’ve been away people have said some really nice things about Heap House, here are a couple. I can’t believe my luck. Gregory Maguire, author… Read more »

I’ve only been on Twitter a very short amount of time and much of that time  I seem to have been tweeting about moustache cups. Here’s a moustache cup from the cover of Heap House. In the book there’s a moustache cup that was formerly this maid servant, see below. But for the best coverage… Read more »

The proof has just arrived for the Canadian edition of Heap House, looking wonderfully gloomy… …and it’ll be out on April Fool’s Day.

The wonderful bookshop Mr B’s in Bath have put Heap House in their window, here’s how it looks:

Here’s the first drawing of Lucy Pennant:   and here’s how she ended up…and is on the back cover

It’s publication day for Heap House…and this is the first sketch I made of Umbitt Iremonger, the patriarch…saying eeek!

In two weeks time the first volume of the Iremonger trilogy will be published in the UK. In it all the rubbish of Victorian London is amassed in one borough of London and is controlled by one family, the Iremongers. A not very pleasant bunch, grown up in filth. Book one is set in their… Read more »