Matthew Cooper: 18 books

"The air of the Great Cathedral was stilled in that eternal moment before the break of a new day. Pale light filtered through high stained-glass windows, dusting the cavernous hall with an ethereal light of myriad colours, as motes of dust drifted down from the lofty roof. Ran crouched on the walkway...

Henry Newcombe is called unexpectedly by an old friend asking for help in investigating a suspicious death. He soon comes to suspect that there may be an ancient evil lurking just out of sight. Together with Detective Inspector Edward Westlake they set out to get to the bottom of several disappearances,...

When a young man is found dead with a mysterious bloody message written on the walls of his room, retired professor Henry Newcombe is called upon to lend his expertise to the investigation. He finds himself dragged unexpectedly into a world of inexplicable disappearances, ancient myths, and the creeping suspicion that malignant forces are lurking just out of sight.

The world is changing. The old ideologies are struggling for dominance in an online world free of constraints. Humankind faces extinction. Masahiro Saito, an android in the Imperial Japanese Army, is assigned a dangerous mission to the heart of the Indian sub-continent. His loyalties will be tested...

Hakon has united the tribes of the north and prepares to march on the city of Holfen. Rumours are growing in the city that there many be a darker force behind Hakon's bloody rise to power. As the people prepare for war, the fate of the city rests in the hands of three men who must fight the evil threatening to overwhelm the world of light.

  An American Marine finds himself a spectator in an unwinnable battle, watching his wife slowly consumed by cancer. Fulfilling her dying wish, they travel to Venice to wait for the end in a foreign city. Living in a decaying palazzo carved up into modern apartments, husband and wife find a bit of...

Ran, a young assassin, finds herself in the midst of a plot for the throne of Carafell. As winter approaches, she faces a race against time to bring down the corrupt church and stop the sinister Lord Ravenswood from destroying the city. A tale of assassins, alchemists, murder and mystery.

To date, there are only a couple dozen or so books specifically about the Presidency of George W. Bush. Political operatives, members of the media, and former administration officials have written most of the volumes. Additionally, the early books on the Bush presidency focus on the various aspects...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...

What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years? What have been the main barriers to progress? What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today? Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together...

Romantic Morsels features snippets of poetry, flash fiction and short stories for when you simply want a little nibble of a scene a little less ordinary. Zimbell House Publishing is committed to helping new writers become quality authors.

The 2016 presidential race is arguably already over in 40 states and the District of Columbia. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2016, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their votes will matter...

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is...

On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...