Guy Gavriel Kay, Author . Roc $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-451-45965-7
In this wonderfully imaginative historical fantasy from Kay (A Song for Arbonne
), seemingly random deeds connect Erling (Viking) raiders and Anglcyn (English) and Cyngael (Welsh) princes: If only Bern Thorkellson hadn't stolen that horse in a...
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Guy Gavriel Kay, Author . Roc $24.95 (421p) ISBN 978-0-451-46129-2
Kay (The Last Light of the Sun
) departs from his usual historical fantasies to connect the ancient, violent history of France to the present day in this entrancing contemporary fantasy. Fifteen-year-old Canadian Ned Marriner accompanies his famous...
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Guy Gavriel Kay, Author . Roc $25.95 (573p) ISBN 978-0-451-46330-2
Historical fantasist Kay (Ysabel
) delivers an exquisitely detailed vision of Kitan, a land much like Tang Dynasty China. Shen Tai's father died leading troops in battle, so he spends his mourning year burying the bones of soldiers on both...
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Guy Gavriel Kay, Author HarperPrism $24 (438p) ISBN 978-0-06-105117-3
Heavy of character and light of plot, Kay's (The Lions of Al Rassan) new series opens with the heady scents of sex, horseflesh and power. In the Holy City of Sarantium, the wily, murderous new emperor, Valerius II, stiffs his soldiers of their pay...
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Guy Gavriel Kay, Author Arbor House $15.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-87795-785-0
In the second book of Kay's Fionavar Tapestry, the five protagonistsordinary Toronto college studentsreturn once more to become warriors and wizards in the beleaguered fantasy world of Fionavar, now suffering an unnaturally prolonged winter. To...
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Guy Gavriel Kay, Author Arbor House $16.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-87795-822-2
The concluding novel in Kay's trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry, opens as the fantasy world's magically prolonged winter yields to springbut a spring where showers bring death, emptying entire cities. To combat the arch evil Rakoth Maugrim, the High...
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Guy Gavriel Kay, Author Roc $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-45028-9
Kay ( The Fionavar Tapestry ) brings to life a layered, pragmatic world of magic and difficult choices, where brutality and beauty coexist. Eight of the nine provinces of the Peninsula of the Palm, on a world with two moons, have fallen to the...
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Guy Gavriel Kay, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $20 (513p) ISBN 978-0-517-59312-7
Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbing novel beautifully creates an alternate version of the medieval world. As in Tigana , it is a world with two moons. The matriarchal, cultured
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Guy Gavriel Kay, Author HarperPrism $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-105217-0
Canadian attorney Kay has eschewed the courtroom thriller for fantasy (A Song for Arbonne, etc.). Here he draws on the crumbling empire of medieval Spain to inspire this tale of brutality and romance. Though the setting is the fictitious Al-Rassan,...
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Guy Gavriel Kay. Roc, $26.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-451-46497-2
The second chapter in the history of the ancient China–inspired empire of Kitai is exquisitely rendered alternate historical fantasy. Several hundred years after the events of Under Heaven (which was set in the equivalent of the Tang Dynasty), teen...
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Guy Gavriel Kay. NAL, $27 (560p) ISBN 978-0-451-47296-0
World Fantasy Award–winner Kay (River of Stars) returns to the alternate Renaissance-era Europe of A Song for Arbonne in this engrossing fantasy of plotting nations, colliding religions, and shifting alliances. The stage is enormous. The wealthy...
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Guy Gavriel Kay. Berkley, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-47298-4
Kay returns to the rich world of Children of Earth and Sky in order to focus on Batiara, an analogue of early Renaissance Italy, in this lovely work of historical fantasy. Narrated primarily by Guidanio Cerra, a clever young scholar, the story...
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Guy Gavriel Kay. Berkley, $28 (528p) ISBN 978-0-593-44104-6
World Fantasy Award winner Kay sets another outstanding fantasy in the Renaissance-like universe previously visited in Children of Earth and Sky and A Brightness Long Ago, offering a mosaic of captivating story lines within a mesmerizing narrative...
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