Heap House was a New York Times Editor’s pick this week.
Elsewhere in
There was this:
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-edward-carey-20141026-story.html#page=1
And from
This:
http://www.npr.org/2014/10/25/356989525/heap-house-is-a-treasure-of-a-trash-tale
And
had this:
The extraordinary Pseudonymous Bosch reviewed Heap House in
For full review:
I’m really delighted to be a part of this exhibition in London, sorry not to have been able to attend. It’ll be in Oxford too later in the year.
Today I’m on Foyles’ blog talking about how Foyles used to be in the days of Christina Foyle.
How it was (a very, very strange place):
And how it is now (extremely pleasant):
http://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Biblio/Detail.aspx?blogId=1282 …
At Edinburgh the very great Philip Ardagh introduced me and quizzed me about Heap House and Foulsham. Philip was incredibly generous and supportive, he is the most wonderful fellow, with a very fine beard. I love his books too, especially the Eddie Dickens Trilogy.
I brought some birth objects with me to give away, each recipient having to promise to look after for ever.
At the Edinburgh Book Festival I was on a panel with the brilliant writers Nathan Filer and Matthew Quick. Their two extraordinary novels, Nathan’s THE SHOCK OF THE FALL and Matthew’s THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW deal very directly with voices in the head. It was an enormous privilege hearing them talk and being sat next to them, and getting a chance to talk a little about Clod Iremonger.
Here’s some more on the project, via the Guardian
Researchers from Durham University’s Hearing the Voice project will be at the festival asking both readers and writers what their experiences are. There will also be interviews, panel discussions and workshops delving into what is still a little-talked-about subject.
The project’s director, Charles Fernyhough, said: “It is usually considered a troubling symptom of a severe mental illness but is more and more being recognised as something that happens to a lot of people and there are a lot of different contexts.”
Contributors to the project, ranging from novelists to medical researchers, will blog about what hearing voices means to them throughout the festival. To take part in the study, fill in the questionnaire on the Inner Voices website
The extremely kind people at Waterstones Piccadilly have let me graffiti their shop. There are (or will be) two Clods inside. This one I drew for them one coffee-filled morning.
And this one who will up in their gallery sometime soon.
Last year when HEAP HOUSE was published in UK the fantastic bookshop Mr B’s were incredibly generous and had an Iremonger window display, this year with the release of FOULSHAM they’ve shown the same extraordinary support. I can’t believe how kind they’ve been. Thank you so much Emma and everyone at Mr B’s.
When I was back in England a couple of weeks ago I recorded a program with BBC Radio 4 called Inheritance Books. I talked about Alan Garner’s dark masterpiece THE WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN which I was obsessed/terrified/inspired by as a child, and also the brilliant translation by Tiina Nunnally of Hans Christian Andersen’s FAIRY TALES, which finally allows Andersen’s wonderfully strange voice to come through clearly and includes some extraordinary tales I did not know before including the unnerving THE SHADOW and his final tale AUNTIE TOOTHACHE.
