Matador imprint: 1188 books
Last Tango in Buenos Aires
Sketches from the Argentine
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Meet pilgrims and Indians, poets and nuns, teachers, priests, veterans of the war in the South Atlantic, gold diggers, coal miners and ranchers, those bereaved by the Dirty War and apologists for it, and those nostalgic for the time when theirs was one of the world’s richest countries or Evita held...
by Jessica Hepburn
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
If you've ever felt a crumpling in your chest when another friend tells you that they're pregnant… If you've ever wondered why everyone else seems to find it so easy… If you've ever experienced the pursuit of motherhood… This book is for you. It is currently estimated that one in five couples...
Police, Arrests & Suspects
The True Story of a Front Line Officer
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
FACT is stranger than FICTION on the front line... Who’s afraid of the Ginger Bread Man? Why do police like big busts? How can a priest assist in a violent robbery? When does Hitler figure in police negotiations? Why can making mashed potato get you arrested? When do police deploy the banana phone?...
Tender is the Scalpel’s Edge
Stories from the Journal of an NHS Consultant Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Glimpses from the journal of an NHS consultant surgeon. What is it like to be the senior surgeon when a young woman is brought to casualty with a life-threatening bleed? What does the fear of cancer do to a person? Is it ever best not to tell the patient everything? Tender is the Scalpel’s Edge...
by Ian Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A serial killer is targeting London literary agents... Led by the old-fashioned and slobbish ‘Inspector No’ and aided by crime author Lavinia Lenehan, DS Flick Fortune and DC Bagawath Chandavarkar (‘Baggo’) narrow down their suspects, all entrants in the Debut Dagger crime writing competition....
by Paul Tomkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Abandoned time and again by those he holds dear, Patrick Clement is forging a reputation as a forensic sculptor, helping to identify the unclaimed missing. But he can’t leave behind a remarkable summer night in 1993, spent alone on Brighton’s derelict West Pier with Black, a beautiful photography...
Goodnight Buffy
Loving a Lakeland Terrier
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This story is about a remarkable Lakeland Terrier called Buffy who fought many illnesses, including a rare cancer. You will laugh out loud, cry softly and fondly remember her story long after reading it. It is a light-hearted look at her life, covering her early days and continuing until her eventual...
by Dr David Drew
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
The scandals of poor care and repeated cover-ups in the NHS in recent years have raised serious questions about the mistreatment of NHS whistleblowers. This book is autobiographical and offers the first detailed account of the ruin of a highly competent senior doctor who blew the whistle. Dr David...
Alone in a Silent World
The Story of the Stephensons and the Sheffield Deaf
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
For centuries the deaf community endured a mixture of derision, ignorance and poverty; they suffered what Dr Johnson described as ‘one of the most desperate of human calamities’. A few schools for deaf children had been founded from the 1780s but it was only in the early decades of the 19th century...
I felt a right one…
And now I feel a right one again!
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
‘Whilst in the bath I lay back and take a look at my ‘bigger than I would really like’ body and focus on my chest. My G cup breasts are not difficult to miss, even with my poor eyesight, but what I see makes me sit up straight. It looks like my right nipple is ‘not on straight’. I put my...
Shakespeare My Butt!
Marsupial Elvis to No Place ... Ramblings, Meanderings, Digressions... and a Dog
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
A charming tale of a year in the life of a serial 'pointless project' addict. Written with a warmth and depth, interspresed with humorous childhood memories, witty recollections of military service and unorthodox observations on life.
Paralian
Not Just Transgender
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The term “Paralian” comes from ancient Greek origins, meaning “one who lives by the sea”. There could be no more apt title for Liam Klenk’s memoir. In Paralian - Not Just Transgender, he recounts the sweeping and nomadic movements of his life via the lens of the rivers, lakes and oceans...
by Eric Evans
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Diamonds for Rice tells the unique true story of a businessman, caught up in an African civil war, who bought his way out with a few bags of rice – traded for priceless diamonds. This gripping memoir covers the carnage in Africa, an amazing escape from the Orly bombing and two bone marrow transplants...
Sympathy for the Devil
The definitive true story of cancer biotechnology and its battle against disease, death and destruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
Gary Acton is a London oncologist and his book offers a unique insight into the chaotically unpredictable world of cancer medicine and the biotechnology industry. Sympathy For The Devil is the account of one company struggling to survive, as all their experimental cancer drugs fail. Now they only...