Matthews: 1354 books

Nell Armstrong accompanied her cantankerous Aunt Longstreet to Bath on the understanding they were going for the waters. But in Bath they met Aunt Longstreets presumptive heir, the estimable Sir Hugh Nowlin, and the older but charming Lord Westwick, whom her aunt snubbed. Nell began to suspect her...

When Lady Coombs was widowed, she found herself in reduced circumstances. But the spirited Alicia chose to become a shopkeeper rather than impose on her overburdened brother. Unfortunately, along with this undermining her position in country society, Alicia now found herself and her adolescent daughter...

Most bridegrooms don't expect to be called "an insufferable toad" the day after their wedding. But Lady Clayborne had provocation enough from his lordship, though she had no idea why he had the ludicrous notion she was not a virgin. Rebecca was not content to be a wife in name only--and Jason was...

They were three young ladies just out of school, with good backgrounds and adequate dowries, ready for their first London Season. But gentle Maggie's blustering, autocratic father had a marriage in mind for her--to a man she'd never meet. Lady Anne, cherished daughter of an aristocratic family, could...

Chilleau Judiciary’s senior administrative officer has been murdered in the very heart of Chambers. Bench Intelligence Specialist Jils Ivers has been unable to ferret out the perpetrator, and that means she’s the Bench’s prime candidate for execution –- so that justice may be seen to have been...

Andrej Koscuisko, the Ragnarok’s Ship's Inquisitor, is going home on leave. His ship of assignment is participating in training exercises, and when an observer station unexpectedly explodes –- killing the Ragnarok’s captain -– Pesadie Training Command has to come up with a cover story in a hurry...

Bench Intelligence Specialist Garol Vogel is one of an elite few chartered by the Bench to uphold the rule of Law by any means he sees fit, to rewrite policy, assassinate corrupt officials, and topple planetary governments at his discretion.His most treasured achievement was the amnesty he brokered for...

The story of a boy from Baltimore who evolves from a safecracking, jewel-heisting, deep-sea diving, ultimate-fighting, international playboy into a globetrotting humanitarian. Stefan Templeton was born a child of extremes. The son of Ebba, an aristocratic Norwegian love child, and Roye, a militant...

Whatever happened to middle England? Two of our funniest writers set out on a journey through conservative country – with hilarious results. The Women's Institute. Polo matches. The Duke of Edinburgh. Nimbys, shooting and game fairs. Pall Mall clubs, the Countryside Alliance and Boris Johnson. Hampshire...

David Matthews was one of the participants of the Welsh revival, and "I Saw the Welsh Revival" is his personal impression of the 1904 revival in Wales. First published by Moody Press, it is published again to recall the mighty days of a century ago when revival fire spread throughout the...

Tales Of Fantasy And Fact by Brander Matthews.

William Faulkner in the Media Ecology explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sound recording, these twelve essays portray Faulkner as not only as a writer looking back on the history...

In 1980 the American Embassy in Bangkok is under threat from one of its own…Diplomat Axel Trink’s career is tainted with wrongdoings and an obsession with gaining revenge on his boss Josephine Bateman, who years earlier took advantage of him in Tel Aviv to jump-start her own Foreign Service career....

The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity, from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly...