Matador imprint: 1188 books

Have you ever had the experience where one minute life is wonderful, and you are on top of the world, and the next minute that world shatters beneath your feet? No-one knows better than Christine what that feels like. Her world was shattered when her mother, sister and daughter were each diagnosed...

Sixty-one year old Louise finally learns she is adopted after the death of her mother. She embarks on a quest to reveal the secrets of her past, helped by new companion and lover, Simon, whom she meets after joining an Internet dating site. In her first full-length novel, author Claire Baldry sensitively...

This book gives you a new angle on the word ‘cholesterol’. It explains how the heart functions and what really causes heart disease. You will learn how to treat it, prevent it and, importantly, how to resolve it... naturally. This brilliant book arms professionals and laymen alike with a personal...

**• A memoir looking at the ups and downs of a doctor’s life. ** **• A ‘warts and all’ examination of the NHS through the last 50 years. ** **• The book also looks at the looming crisis in the NHS when the number of doctors will dramatically fall.  ** Alistair Fraser-Moodie...

The book is concerned with the part of magistrates in the criminal justice system. It opens with a description of a magistrate's court in session, showing what an observer might find perplexing.

When Sarah Moore and her husband Gary learned that they were expecting a baby, they thought their wait was over. After a long and challenging path to become parents, they felt certain their deepest prayers had been answered and they would soon be parents. When they learned just weeks later that that...

This gripping historical fiction follows the life of a Scottish teenager, Marion as she attempts to escape from the terrible suffering she experiences at a convent on the island of Ischia. Unlike many historical romance novels, this story confronts the reality of religious barbarity, revolutionary violence and the frustration endured by women seeking to determine their own destiny.

Written by a geologist rather than an art historian, Inigo’s Stones has a down to earth narrative which reveals Inigo Jones as a stone expert who dealt with masons to became a shrewd businessman, bringing Portland stones to London, and founding the modern Portland stone industry. Why are so many...

The writer questions the traditional list of the first disciple/apostles of Jesus. Then he provides pen portraits of an alternative list found in the gospels, including an unmasking of the Beloved Disciple. He also demonstrates Jesus' networking skills and his underestimated gift of organization....

'Return to God' is a rare resource for uncommon Bible knowledge. It is one book which clearly identifies the Gospel of Grace as different from the tradition under the Mosiac Covenant, and yet strings them together in a way without mixing them up. The book covers several areas of the Holy Bible which...

The Adventures of a Mzungu takes a light-hearted look at the ups and downs of travelling and working in Africa, as seen through the eyes of a bewildered novice who had never before wandered outside of the UK. Travel with David on his first visit to a Nairobi shanty town, where he is startled by a...

Winner of the 2010 Waverton Good Read Award and shortlisted for the 2011 Rubery International Book Award, The Ghosts of Eden is the story of two men, one black, one white, who fall in love with the same woman. Which man will walk beside her on the shores of the Indian Ocean? Zachye, tending cattle...

They watched him and helped him evade capture. They gave him a new name and a new life. They trained him and changed him. They created Steve Barratt, The Kingfisher, and they let him loose to correct injustice wherever it was found. But then, they asked him to cross a line and he turned against them....

For the first time, discover the traits and characteristics of every type of man you have ever met. No matter what your opinion of men is, you will never look at them the same way again! Prepare for the most intriguing, entertaining and informative book you will read this year. Why Men REALLY Cheat:...