Matador imprint: 1188 books
by Virginia Weir
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The year is 1984 and the British Empire is still intact. Peta Firth, a bookish district officer in the remote Kyinwe district of Burma, is bored and lonely and longs for friendship and a meeting of minds. After a riot devastates the town, Captain Henrietta de Carnac and her detachment of cavalry troopers...
Without Walls
A memoir by Milton Toubkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Without Walls is Milton’s Toubkin’s unique memoir, which begins with an impoverished, but generally happy, early childhood in South Africa and ends with Milton’s retirement. Like most people, Milton faced many difficulties throughout his life, ranging from the divorce of his parents, his mother’s...
Cross Killer
Walking a mile in someone else's shoes can be murder!
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
“Kill his wife before she kills him." LE Willetts’ Cross Killer follows the story of Eileen and Malcolm Muldoon, a couple whose twenty-five year marriage has finally grown stale. Utterly convinced that Eileen wants him dead, and encouraged by the unlikely friendship he has forged with his...
A House at the End of the Track
Travels among the English in the Ariège Pyrenees
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
**An exploration of the English community in a remote corner of France. **
**A book which looks beyond the stereotype of the English living abroad. **
No other travel narratives have focused on the Ariège Pyrenees region of France.
Intrigued by the endless accounts of English...
by Justin Newland
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Akasha is a precocious young girl with dreams of motherhood. She lives in a fantastical world where most of the oceans circulate in the aquamarine sky waters.
Before she was born, the Helios, a tribe of angels from the sun, came to Earth to deliver the Surge, the next step in the evolution...
The Family Game
What Sport and Psychology Teach Us About Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
**What Sport and Psychology Teach Us About Parenting **
‘It’s no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.’
Andre...
Audio Drama
10 Plays for Radio and Podcast
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Audio Drama is unique. There’s no other book like it. First it’s aimed at the vast audience for audio drama, whether in the form of traditional radio plays or as podcasts. For them, Audio Drama provides the opportunity to see how ten literary classics were dramatised for radio, and to recreate...
by Neville Teller
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The Chaos in the Middle East: 2014-2016 provides an up-to-date overview of the problems currently affecting the Middle East, and sets them in context. By providing not only an account of the bewilderingly complicated events of the past two years, but also explaining their background, Neville Teller...
by Joe Hayman
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Joe Hayman travels across the UK in the wake of the Brexit vote, speaking to Leave and Remain voters about the attitudes and experiences which made them vote the way they did and using those views to explore the political economy of post-referendum Britain. From Sunderland to Belfast, from Aberystwyth...
Corporate Bitch to Shaman
A journey uncovering the links between 21st century science, consciousness and ancient healing practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Evelyn Brodie worked as an economist in government and the City, then as a live television journalist, Head of Financial Communications and strategic communications consultant, until undeniable experiences forced her to change her belief system. ‘I had unconsciously adopted the role of Scary Corporate...
The Facts of Life
Girlhood memoir of the 20s and 30s
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Despite describing an Irish-Scottish childhood in Glasgow during the 1930s Depression – in a period book-ended by two world wars – The Facts of Life is written in a charming and simple style with many amusing and memorable vignettes. As Anne grows into adolescence, the warm and loving relationship...
A Season in the Sun
A charming tale of a Seychelles legacy, village cricket and foul play
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
Henry Fanshawe, the last family member of Fanshawes Commodities in the City of London, leads a quiet life trading spices in a large dealing room. His day consists of ignoring requests to tidy his desk, making money and spending it on his three great loves: French landscape paintings, fine wine, and...
by Dan Gleed
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
Paul Moncton and his close friend Matt are out hunting in Kenya. Attacked by a marauding lion, Matt is killed and eaten. Too afraid to face the animal, Paul attempts to flee, breaking his leg. Temporarily confined, but unable to live with his cowardice, he begins to contemplate suicide. At this point...
The Gifts
A Sci-Fi Saga
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
An epic Sci-Fi Saga set on a parallel Earth It is the 22nd century. Viking/Anglo Saxon is the dominant culture. Rorn is a low-life criminal who works for his grandfather the head of a criminal gang in Fyrstrborg, a city in the country of Vigrlandt. Rorn is mentored by Kaspral an old warrior with a...