Iremonger Trilogy

''Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens'' - Vox.com
''Dark and wildly original urban fantasy tale'' - The New York Times
''Delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that a novel for children should be'' - Eleanor Catton, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013
''A rare work of individual brilliance'' - Inis magazine

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 family, robust and hardworking, but Clod has an illness. He can hear the objects whispering. His birth object, a universal bath plug, says ''James Henry'', Cousin Tummis''s tap is squeaking ''Hilary Evelyn Ward-Jackson'' and something in the attic is shouting ''Robert Burrington'' and it sounds angry.

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 destroy Clod''s world.