Young Picador

Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed...

LODESTAROut on the world's ocean, night is a black war-horse. The white ship bucks upon it like a ghost rider with no reins.A lone figure at the bow keeps watch, her eyes as dark as the night. She has lost the star. All through the night she tracked it, even when it vanished behind cloud.The North...

A fedőlapon kis folt. A gerinc megtört. The long-awaited third installment of the worldwide phenomenon and number-one international bestseller, Tales of the Otori Set in an imagined medieval Japan, Book Three is a thrilling-and surprising-follow-up to the previous adventures of Takeo and Kaede....

The ​second book in the „Tales of the Otori” trilogy continues the epic story of Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, the young lovers whose fate is played out in an ancient Oriental world, where ritualized codes of high honor counter the cruelty of savage blood-feuds. Takeo has pledged his life...

ForewordThese events took place in the year following the death of Otori Shigeru in the Tohan stronghold of Inuyama. The leader of the Tohan clan, lida Sadamu, was killed in revenge by Shigeru's adopted son, Otori Takeo, or so it was widely beUeved, and the Tohan overthrown by Arai Daiichi, one of...