The Carnival of Ash

  • Author Tom Beckerlegge
  • Narrator Nathaniel Priestley
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Run Time 15 hours and 29 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Fantasy.
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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...

© Tom Beckerlegge(P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2022

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