Books like Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Lions of Al-Rassan is a sweeping fantasy set in a world echoing medieval Spain, following rival champions and a court physician as political intrigue and looming holy war threaten to reshape their land.

A sweeping saga set in ninth‑century England, following Uhtred of Bebbanburg as he shifts between Viking and Saxon loyalties while King Alfred the Great battles the Scythe‑touched invaders.

Five college students are transported to the first of all worlds, Fionavar, where they must help a mage prepare the land for an impending battle against an ancient evil.

In Guy Gavriel Kay’s lyrical fantasy, the troubadour‑rich land of Arbonne is torn by a feud over the dead lover Aelis, while a mercenary from the militant Gorhaut brings a new threat to the fragile peace between cultures.

In France’s historic Saint‑Saveur Cathedral, teenage photographer Ned Marriner confronts the building’s living past as he investigates secrets that blur time, destiny, and the boundary between the seen and unseen.

A secondary‑school resource that connects literary study and language development, featuring American and English texts suitable for grades 4 through 6.

Guy Gavriel Kay’s epic fantasy, Children of Earth and Sky, follows intertwined lives on the borderlands of a Renaissance‑inspired realm, as empires, faiths, and a looming war threaten all.

Set against an 8th‑century fiefdom inspired by Tang dynasty China, "Under Heaven" follows Shen Tai as he seeks to bury 100,000 war victims in a desolate lake, honoring his father's grief while navigating imperial politics and legendary western steeds.

A contemporary Scottish writer uncovers a secret from 1708 involving a Jacobite invasion and a long‑lost tragedy, as a haunting ancestral memory threatens to unleash the buried truth for all to see.

The Romantic poet John Keats, considered by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language, has long been the subject of attention from scholars who seek to understand him and poets who seek to emulate him. Bridging these impulses, this book is neither historical biography nor scholarly study, but instead a biography of Keats's poetic imagination. Here the noted poet Dan Beachy-Quick enters into Keats's writing--both his letters and his poems--not to critique or judge, not to claim or argue, but to embrace the passion and quickness of his poetry and engage the aesthetic difficulties with which Keats grappled. Combining a set of biographical portraits that place symbolic pressure on key moments in Keats's life with a chronological examination of the development of Keats-as-poet through his poems and letters, Beachy-Quick explores the growth of the young man's poetic imagination during the years of his writing life, from 1816 to 1820.--From publisher description.