The Perfume Garden (9781848879348)

High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled; the garden, laden with orange blossom, grown wild.

Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Guided by a series of letters and a key bequeathed in her mother's will, she has left her job as London's leading perfumier to restore this dilapidated villa to its former glory. It is the perfect retreat: a wilderness redolent with strange and exotic scents, heavy with the colours and sounds of a foreign time. But for her grandmother, Freya, a British nurse who stayed here during Spain's devastating civil war, Emma's new home evokes terrible memories.

As the house begins to give up its secrets, Emma is drawn deeper into Freya's story: of crushed idealism, of lost love, and of families ripped apart by war. She soon realises it is one thing to let go of the past, but another when it won't let go of you.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 496 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 31mm | 344g
• Publication date 01 Apr 2013
• Publisher ATLANTIC BOOKS
• Imprint Corvus
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Main - Print on Demand
• ISBN10 1848879342
• ISBN13 9781848879348
• Bestsellers rank 257,808

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Spearhead : An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy and a Collision of Lives in World War II (9781782395782)

The New York Times Bestseller

'Brilliant... Gripping' Wall Street Journal

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner's journey into the heart of the Third Reich.

At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division - 'Spearhead' - thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next. Soon a pattern emerged: the lead tank always gets hit.

After Clarence sees his friends cut down breaching the West Wall and holding the line in the Battle of the Bulge, he and his crew are given a weapon with the power to avenge their fallen brothers: the Pershing, a state-of-the-art 'super tank', one of twenty in the European theatre.

But with it comes a harrowing new responsibility: now they will spearhead every attack. That's how Clarence finds himself leading the U.S. Army into its largest urban battle of the European war, the fight for Cologne, the 'Fortress City' of Germany.

Battling through the ruins, Clarence will engage the fearsome Panther in a duel immortalized by an army cameraman. And he will square off with Gustav Schaefer, a teenager behind the trigger in a Panzer IV tank, whose crew has been sent on a suicide mission to stop the Americans.

As Clarence and Gustav trade fire down a long boulevard, they are confronted by a tragic mistake of war. What happens next will haunt Clarence to the modern day, drawing him back to Cologne to do the unthinkable: to face his enemy, one last time.

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• Format Hardback | 416 pages
• Dimensions 165 x 240 x 38mm | 860g
• Publication date 07 Mar 2019
• Publisher ATLANTIC BOOKS
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Main
• Illustrations note 2 x16pp b/w plates
• ISBN10 1782395784
• ISBN13 9781782395782
• Bestsellers rank 51,210

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A Higher Call : The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry During the Second World War (9781782392545)

Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail -German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day -the American -2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown and the German -2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler. A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions and gives a dramatic account of the moment when they would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force would later classify as 'top secret'. It was an act that Franz could never mention or else face a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would seek out one another and reunite.

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• Format Paperback | 400 pages
• Dimensions 153 x 234 x 31mm | 636g
• Publication date 01 Aug 2013
• Publisher ATLANTIC BOOKS
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• ISBN10 1782392548
• ISBN13 9781782392545
• Bestsellers rank 223,606

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Alif the Unseen (9780857895691)

'I will tell you a story, but it comes with a warning; when you hear it, you will become someone else.'

He calls himself Alif, a young man born in a Middle Eastern city that straddles the ancient and modern. When Alif comes into possession of a mysterious book entitled The Thousand and One Days, he discovers a door to another world - a world from a very different time, when old magic was in the ascendant and the djinn walked amongst us.

Thus begins an adventure that takes him through the crumbling streets of a once-beautiful city, to uncover the long-forgotten mysteries of the Unseen. Alif is about to become a fugitive. And he is about to unleash a destructive power that will change everything and everyone - starting with Alif himself...

Product details

• Format Paperback | 448 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 28mm | 360g
• Publication date 01 Jun 2013
• Publisher ATLANTIC BOOKS
• Imprint Corvus
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Main
• ISBN10 0857895699
• ISBN13 9780857895691
• Bestsellers rank 70,570

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