The first installment in a new series: an astonishing new work from the author of Across the Nightingale Floor. Set in a Japan-inspired mythical medieval world inhabited by warriors, assassins, acrobats, ghosts, guardian spirits, tengu, horses and monkeys, this is a brilliantly imagined novel, full of drama and intrigue - the beginning of an enthralling, epic adventure: The Tale of Shikanoko. Wonderfully evocative.