Guy Gavriel Kay Guest Blog – Under Heaven, and the Book World Under Siege
‘Under Heaven, and the Book World Under Siege’ by Guy Gavriel Kay A first public reading from a new novel is an interesting exercise. Over the years, and with eleven books now, I have learned (probably too slowly) how many variables go into what works and what doesn’t. The starting point is to be aware [...]
Book Review – The Lions of Al-Rassan
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay Cover Artist: Mel Odom Publisher: EOS Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1995 Al-Rassan is a land in turmoil. For hundreds of years it has been ruled by powerful Khalifs, and had prospered, sending raiding parties to Esperana in the north for treasure and supplies. But now the last Khalif has been murdered, [...]
Book Review – Tigana
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay Cover Artist: Henry Van Der Linde Publisher: Simon & Schuster Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 2002 The fantasy classic the cover of my copy proclaims, and I suppose that is what it is. You would be hard pressed to find another single volume fantasy novel of such depth. It is [...]
On the Spot at BSC – Guy Gavriel Kay interview
This week our featured author On The Spot is critically acclaimed, award-winning writer Guy Gavriel Kay, author of the soon-to-be released novel Ysabel, and many other historical fantasies including The Last Light of the Sun and Tigana. A big thanks and welcome to Mr. Kay! Justin: For those readers waiting for the official release of [...]
Book Review – Ysabel
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay Publisher: ROC Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: February, 2007 Guy Gavriel Kay, most notably known for Tigana and The Last Light of the Sun, gives the world another captivating novel, Ysabel, his tenth to date. It’s set in the present day in the southern part of France, but still focuses largely on [...]
Book Review – The Last Light of the Sun
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay Publisher: ROC Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2003 As with his previous work, Guy Gavriel Kay’s “The Last Light of the Sun” draws from our own past and reshapes it in his own unique vision. The re-imagined world here is that of “The Lions of Al-Rassan” and “The Sarantine Mosaic”, but the [...]
Book Review – Lord of Emperors
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay Publisher: Penguin Canada Binding: Paperback Publication Date: November 2002 Let me begin candidly: “Lord of Emperors” only confirms the burgeoning suspicion I had at the end of “Sailing to Sarantium”. The “Sarantine Mosaic” is, for me, one of *the* superior works of prose, plot and imagination, not only in the fantasy [...]
Book Review – Sailing to Sarantium
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay Publisher: Penguin Canada Binding: Paperback Publication Date: April 2005 I have a set of bright memories associated with various of Guy Gavriel Kay’s novels: Sitting, aged 13, grief-stricken and sobbing in a cold bath having finished “The Darkest Road”, the final weft in his Fionavar Tapestry; drooping in my early morning [...]
