Philip Matthews: 36 books

The novel is a retelling of the myth of the Minotaur in the form of a detective story. Theseus is a corporate investigator on loan to the local police to find an unusual Midnight Rambler active in a large city park. Ariadne’s motives for helping him are ambiguous, caught as she is between her feelings...

A corporate investigator with a durbious reputation is seconded to help the local police force deal with a mysterious Midnight Rambler in a city park. As coincidences mount up, the investigator comes to suspect that the night prowler's terrible assaults might be expressing his own most secret cravings.

The Principal rules the City and so can do what he likes. He likes raping women and murdering their male kin should they complain. The City Council must find a way to curb the Principal and so save their City from impending chaos. The solution is to provide him a friend, with the companionship he...

The Principal rules the City and so can do what he likes. He likes raping women and murdering their male kin should they complain. The City Council must find a way to curb the Principal and so save their City from impending chaos. The solution is to provide him a friend, with the companionship he...

DARK LIBERATION is a cycle of 16 novels written over a period of forty years, from 1970 to 2010. The fundamental theme of the cycle – which only became clear as the novels were written – is that the key to the future of mankind lies within each individual, and not in some external salvator, be...

The novel is about the relations between fathers and sons. It is a largely metaphorical work, projecting these relations on to an imaginary landscape in an attempt to display how sons are influenced by their fathers and what they do under that influence. The story is about a prince, whose father,...

Peter Lacey has been obliged to abandon his life as peripatetic researcher into the more obscure areas of Utopianism. Now, he works as a temporary credit controller in various companies in London. One day, while en route to a routine business meeting, he and an associate pick up a hitch-hiker and...

The novel is about the sentimental education of an Irish writer, Richard Butler. Given the limited possibilities of the biographical novel, the experiences of Butler are conveyed by means of sixteen episodes that concentrate on the key incidents in his life between child-hood and his early-thirties....

DARK LIBERATION is a cycle of 20 novels written over a period of fifty one years, from 1966 to 2017. The fundamental theme of the cycle – which only became clear as the novels were written – is that the key to the future of mankind lies within each individual, and not in some external salvator,...

A detailed account of a spiritual process that every human being must undertake in the coming age. It is the result of ten years' spiritual investigation and five years following of persistent meditation. (Note: Due to the limitations of the ebook formats, you may find variations in the quality of the text. Hopefully this will not interfere with your experience of The Gryphon Mystery.)

Jane Blake, 37, suddenly leaves her mother, with whom she has lived since the death in a car crash of her fiancé thirteen years previously, to try to make a life of her own before it is too late. This action sparks a profound crisis, and she finds that, living alone for the first time, as well as...

Peter Lacey has been obliged to abandon his life as peripatetic researcher into the more obscure areas of Utopianism. Now, he works as a temporary credit controller in various companies in London. One day, while en route to a routine business meeting, he and an associate from Sales pick up a hitch-hiker...

Jane Blake, 37, suddenly leaves her mother, with whom she has lived since the death of her fiancé thirteen years previously, to make a life of her own before it is too late. This action sparks a profound crisis, and she finds that - living alone for the first time - as well as trying to decide...

=OR= is the logo of Rising Transport Services, but it only incidentally contains the initials of its late boss, Ossie Rising. Ossie was a respected businessman and the celebrity philanthropist, who was known to millions of viewers for the =OR= gold-painted truck that brought much-needed aid to many...