Lian Hearn

In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot....

In a complex social hierarchy, amid dissembling clans and fractured allegiances, there is no place for passionate young love....

Kaede knows nothing of the prophecy that Takeo will die at the hands of his son and longs to give him a male child. Nor does she know of the boy he fathered 16 years ago....

The first and last tale that both closes the circle and introduces readers to the strange and beautiful world of the Otori. An epic historical fantasy of revenge, betrayal, honor, beauty, and love....

The teenage lovers, Takeo and Kaede, are now married. But their destinies are determined by forces beyond their control....

Books 3 and 4 in The Tale of Shikanoko series. The second and final instalment of The Tale of Shikanoko: a bold epic of a fantastical medieval Japan from the creator of the global phenomenon Tales of the Otori, Lian Hearn, whose books have sold over four million copies worldwide....

Orphan warriors fight for survival in a brutal medieval world in this fantastically thrilling adventure that continues the Tales of the Otori series....

As a boy, Arai Sunaomi, was known as the Miracle Child and crossed between the worlds to walk among the dead. Now, he has put aside his past to follow the way of the warrior....

Japan, 1857. For centuries Japan has been on its own; isolated by choice from the rest of the world. But the Western powers are now at its shores demanding to be let in, the government is crumbling and revolution is building. The age of the samurai is ending and in its place a new Japan will be...

Takeo feels he must take on the Tribe and demonstrate the ruthlessness he will need to be a competent ruler....