Matador imprint: 1188 books
16mm of Innocence
Rarely If Ever Do Children Forgive Their Parents
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Imagine discovering that your father was a Nazi war criminal who escaped justice. Imagine if that was not the worst secret in your family... What do we really know about our parents? How clearly do we remember our childhoods? 16mm of Innocence tells the story of three estranged siblings who have reluctantly...
Storyteller
On the Journey of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Storyteller is the third collection of stories written in verse by David Hamilton. Each story is told by a historical figure to convey allegory, symbolism and metaphor, with the author as the overarching narrator. The book takes readers on a journey through imaginative worlds where the reader witnesses...
Developing Resilience
The Key to Professional Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Written by Management and training specialist Fiona Westwood, author of Achieving Best Practice (McGraw Hill, 2001) and Accelerated Best Practice (Matador, 2008), Developing Resilience is aimed at readers who are professionals working in an organisation that delivers professional services, including...
Kibbutz Virgin
A British Teenager's Account of Six Months Living on a Kibbutz in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Jonathan was a naïve eighteen-year-old who had just finished his A-levels. His cousin Andy suggested they fly to Israel in order to experience life on a kibbutz as a ‘volunteer’. Jonathan had never even heard the word kibbutz and he knew very little about Israel, but he agreed to take part in the...
by Valerie Barona
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
A light-hearted look at life in a sleepy Italian village which slowly awakes to the twenty-first century. In 1977, Valerie Barona made the decision to join her husband in Piussogno, a small mountain village in northern Italy. An English teacher born and raised in Dorset, she told of her early years...
Fast Forward
Music And Politics In 1974
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
1964-1974 was a tumultuous decade. In the first two books of his ‘Music and Politics’ trilogy, Steve Millward traced how the optimism and adventure of 1964 had, by 1970, soured into frustration and uncertainty. Fast Forward: Music and Politics in 1974 brings the story to a climax by showing that...
by Mark Roland Langdale
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
An entertaining book full of humour, science and history Children can learn in a fun way about history with more time travellers than you can throw a Flux-capacitor at! The story starts in a gentlemen’s club in London in 2061 and follows the main character, Benjamin Digby Esq. He relives his days...
The Clock People
Clockwork Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A highly imaginative fantasy book for children and young adults.
Written in the authors’ unmistakable style, the book transports readers to a different world.
The narrative surrounds the theme of time and follows people who live inside a clock.
The Clock People is a wondrous...
by Jenny Francis
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Blood Ties is the second murder mystery which features Detective Inspector Charlie Moon. Like the first, The Silent Passage (Matador, 2014), it is set in Birmingham at the time of the millennium. It follows Moon two years after his suspension from duty for not following house rules; he is back on...
Meditation & Yoga
Discovering the Higher Spheres of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Discover the meaning of existence – the key to success in this life and beyond. Reach a higher level of consciousness and unlock your mind’s full potential. Meditation & Yoga is the ideal book for someone looking to improve their lifestyle. In clear simple language, the intricacies of the...
by Peter Breakspear
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Peter Breakspear brings us End Point, a gripping work of sci-fi set at the sharp end of a major global event and the winner of a Writing Magazine competition to be published by Matador. At the start of the novel, protagonist Tom is leading a four-man team on the edge of a Welsh valley to find and...
The Dark Truth
A Crystal Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
The Dark Truth is the follow-up to Untold Truth (Matador, 2012) and the second book in a trilogy. Jane and Mark travel to a friend’s mine in Africa. They realise that the problem with the crystals stems from Mark's past – a past he has been running away from. With the help of a bushman...
The Perfect Pair
The Mirror Cracks
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This is the second book in the dolphin trilogy The Perfect Pair, the factionalised memoir of Europe’s top 1970s dolphin trainer. It reveals the plight of the captive dolphin and gives an insight into the relationship between one particular trainer and his dolphins, whisking the reader on a journey...
The Perfect Pair
Shards from the Mirror
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
There are literally hundreds – if not thousands – of academic works written about dolphins. This is certainly not one of them, for within these pages dwells a graphic story of the plight of the commercial dolphin. The Perfect Pair: Shards from the Mirror is the final book in ‘The Perfect Pair...