All The Seas Of The World

On a dark night, along a lonely stretch of coast, a small merchant ship sends two people secretly ashore to a stony strand. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive. The consequences of what follows will affect lives both great and small, and possibly alter the balance of power in the world.

One of those arriving on that night strand is a women abducted by corsairs from her home as a child. Escaping that life, that destiny, years after, she is trying to chart her own course - and is bent upon revenge. A third figure on the ship that night is a man who still remembers being exiled as a child with his family from their home, for their faith. A moment that never leaves him. His ship will bring the other two out from the city, if they can somehow do what they are headed there to do, and live.

All the Seas of the World forms a thematic centrepiece to international bestseller Guy Gavriel Kay's two most recent novels, A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky. Returning triumphantly to his near-Renaissance world, Kay deploys his signature 'quarter turn to the fantastic' to present readers with a vividly memorable set of characters in a story of vengeance, power, and love, built around profoundly contemporary themes of exile and memory.

In the midst of its page-turning drama, All the Seas of the World offers moving reflections on choices, fate, and the random events that can shape our lives - in the past, and today.