The kiss of the nightingaleLutce, 1890. In this city, talents are everything: precious gems that gift unrivalled skills to their owners. The most coveted, Elite Talents, are claimed by the aristocracy, passed through generations by blood magic. Cleodora dreamed of inheriting her father's Tailoring Talent, but when he died, the magic died with him. Now she's left with empty promises, a dress shop she can't keep afloat and her bed ridden younger sister. But everything changes

2003: British and American forces confront an insurgency of devastating complexity

One night in a bar he is amazed to find himself drinking with heroes of story and history

What is a home without the roots that tie you to a place

Among the most stunning of these is the realisation that experience itself

Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post

in restaurants

this is the SAS's wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail

the propeller of an ocean liner and an anchor made of stone

the Scottish Fold kitten helps a broken-hearted Geisha to stop blaming herself for the cat she once lost

the stirring tale of the American Volunteer Group in China

passionate account of her arrest

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