Matador imprint: 1188 books

Robert Fallons’s latest book is a collection of twenty stories with connected poems and photos. The book is formed of true stories based on five generations of Robert’s family – while fictionalised, are all based on family fact. The Sassenach from Ireland takes us back to Ireland in the 1840s...

Cecil Jenkins’ historical novel gives readers an insight into legendary painter Pablo Picasso's relationship with his lover Dora Maar… the most significant of both of their careers. “Studies of Picasso have often underplayed the important role of the beautiful and intelligent photographer and...

On The Road With The REDMEN is a tale of joy, heartbreak and madness following Liverpool Football Club around the Premier League grounds of England. The comedy, camaraderie and nonsense, it’s all here in the diary of a season supporting the world’s most iconic football club.

After a sickly start to his life, Tony Porter certainly made up for it – he started his career selling paint for ICI, who later sent him to Nigeria. There he married Beatrice and they had three children. Brought home 8 years later following the outbreak of the Biafran war, he left ICI and immersed...

‘How do I flourish in a crowded room? How do I overcome self-doubt? How do I keep in touch with everyone I know?’ In Relationology, Matt Bird provides 101 inspirational and practical secrets to help you grow your business through the power of relationships, by providing the answers to these questions,...

People with learning difficulties are present in the community but how many are equal citizens of the world? How do we achieve true citizenship? By using our seven values: support and care, respect, integrity for future generations, freedom of heart and mind, hope and courage, productive living...

Every year, thousands of people train to be a life, business or executive coach but struggle to make a living. Although attracted to the profession, they are forced to give up as they cannot find enough clients to pay the bills. Even great coaches can not create the business they crave without the...

In I’m Still Standing, Mel Carnegie vividly recounts how she has fought adversity since childhood, beginning with the death of her father when she was just four years old and culminating with the discovery that her ten-year marriage had been nothing but a sham. She now believes that the man she...

All Together Now is the culmination of a 20 year quest by David Rowley to find out just what made the Beatles tick. It contains many dazzling revelations about the Beatles' music. David Rowley has unearthed new evidence on songs such as 'Yesterday', 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'Eleanor Rigby', 'Here...

‘My mom leans back, smiles, and strokes my cheek. “That’s all right, Charlie. Never you mind. You just got soft living with your grandparents, is all. You forgot that most people don’t have it so easy—that you have to be tough to make it in this world.”’ Set in the 1980’s, Dyed...

Bob McIntosh’s life has been rich in incident and anecdote which he recounts with verve and passion. An exciting biography told with a fine portion of personal sarcasm and humour. An early life spent in the Australian outback and then throughout Latin America. Bob McIntosh grew...

**A highly evocative story set in Liverpool of the 1960’s. ** **An exploration of what it was to be like to be young in the time and city of The Beatles. ** **The joys of music and football in a golden age. ** At the start of the 1960’s Liverpool is an ordinary, northern...

Inspired by the author’s childhood in Ireland and his life with his loving family, Vincent’s Prayer explores themes of childhood and youth, love and marriage, and illness and sanity. Vincent’s Prayer is a startlingly personal collection of poems that seeks to bring hope and enjoyment to the...

Romance is lost or doomed in the bathroom. For an eager husband, who might be expecting a favour or two, and does not want to be crushed under foot, lashed by the cruel tongue or reduced to a quivering, shivering wreck - "remember, the toilet seat!". Raise and lower it like your life depended...