Lian Hearn’s stunningly powerful bestseller, Over the Nightingale Ground, is an epic story for readers young and old. Set in a mythical, feudal, Japanese land, a global both gorgeous and cruel, the intense love story of two teenagers occurs against a history of warring clans, magic formula alliances, high honour and lightning swordplay.

In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord from the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Its surface sings on the tread of each human foot, no assassin can mix it. But sixteen-year-old Otori Takeo, his family members murdered by Iida’s warriors, has the magical skills from the Tribe – preternatural hearing, invisibility, another self – that enable him to get into the lair from the Tohan. He offers like in his center and loss of life at his fingertips .

The first novel in the epic Tales from the Otori series, Across the Nightingale Ground is accompanied by Grass For His Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon.