Wednesday 13th September 2023
19:00 - 21:00 at The Common Press Bookshop
To celebrate the release of A Market of Dreams and Destiny, join its author Trip Galey for an evening of magic and fantasy with Tom Pollock, author of the best-selling The Skyscraper Throne series.
About the book:
Enter the bazaar of the bizarre—where fate and fortunes are for sale just beneath Covent Garden—in this high-stakes historical fantasy debut set in 17th-century London.
Below Covent Garden lies the Under Market, where anything and everything has a price: a lover’s first blush, a month of honesty, five minutes of strength, a wisp of luck. Deri is a Master Merchant's apprentice and after seventeen years of servitude, stealing his master’s secrets, Deri spots a chance to buy not only his freedom but his place amongst the Market’s elite. If he can trade a princess's destiny and sell it to the right bidder, he could change not just his fate, but all of London's.
Imagine Neverwhere meets The Night Circus with a dash of Six of Crows, in a romantic adventure across a London full of magic, and a daring -nd impossible scheme that will change the fate of the city forever. This book is perfect for readers of V.E. Schwab, Stephanie Garber, and Erin Morgenstern, and people who live in London/or are visiting the city. With a beautiful and compelling LGBTQ+ romance at its core, A Market of Dreams of Destiny is an enthralling historical-fantasy that will capture your heart.
About the authors:
Trip Galey is a debut author whose first novel, A Market of Dreams and Destiny, will be published in September 2023. His interactive novel, Faerie's Bargain, was published in 2021 and is set in the same world. Trip has degrees in English and Theatre, Shakespeare, Acting and Creative Writing. He works as a lecturer and was published in the Lambda, Ignyte and Locus award-nominated Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of A World That Wouldn’t Die. He lives in London and tweets @TripGaley.
Tom Pollock is the author of the best-selling trilogy, The Skyscraper Throne, which won him a place on The Guardian’s list of twenty best young novelists in science fiction and fantasy. The first title, The City’s Son, was shortlisted for the Kitschies Golden Tentacle. The Glass Republic was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award and Our Lady of The Streets was one of The Guardian’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of the Year (2014). When he’s not researching and writing novels, he works out how to ship oil around the world safe from environmental accidents and pirate attacks. He lives in London and tweets @tomhpollock.
There are a limited number of free tickets reserved for guests on a low income. If these are sold out and you are unable to afford the pay-what-you-can minimum, drop us an email at books@commonpress.co.uk and we'll add you to the guest list - no questions asked.