The Carnival of Ash

Solaris Lead title for Spring 2022.

An extravagant, lyrical fantasy about a city of poets and librarians. A city that never was.

Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries, its heart beating to the stamp and thrum of the printing presses in the Printing Quarter.

Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city's poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil, the looming prospect of war with their rival Venice ever-present. A war that threatens not only to destroy Cadenza but remove it from history altogether...

Author: Tom Beckerlegge
Publisher: Solaris
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.70d
ISBN13: 9781786185006
ISBN10: 1786185008
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | Historical
- Fiction | Historical | Renaissance
- Fiction | Alternative History

About the Author
Thomas Beckerlegge grew up in a market town in the northwest of England, dreaming of becoming a writer. He studied history at Jesus College, Oxford and won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize for his first novel, Darkside, at the age of 25, writing as Tom Becker. Tom lives in London with his wife, baby son, and a horde of shadowy creatures that he keeps confined within the pages of his notebook.