For more than four decades, Guy Gavriel Kay has been one of Canadas most acclaimed and widely read novelists. In Home and Away, he brings together a rich selection of speeches, essays, reviews, reflections, and poetry drawn from across his writing life.

Kay writes about the books and writers who shaped him, from J.R.R. Tolkien and Dorothy Dunnett to Alan Garner and the great poets; about history, fantasy, law, exile, travel, and the strange business of making a life in literature. He revisits the origins of his own celebrated novels and considers the responsibilities of writers, the power of stories, and the importance of leaving room for mystery and imagination.

By turns thoughtful, provocative, moving, and very funny, Home and Away offers both a literary miscellany and an unusually personal portrait of a writer reflecting on his craft, his influences, and a lifetime spent among books.