Nostalgia Man Trilogy

  An intricate and psychologically complex page-turner. BookLife Prize review.

 Nostalgia Man in Henley-on-Thames delves into the power of memory, lost love, and confused youth. Oliver Matthews returns to the beautiful riverside town of Henley-on-Thames to confront lingering doubts and secrets. As he reconnects with life in the sixties, disturbing questions and hidden treasures unfurl, redefining his perceptions. Is he hero or villain? This psychological romantic mystery is a meditation on the nature of memory itself. 

Without memory, we are nothing.

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Nostalgia Man in Market Harborough is the second novel by Paul S Bradley in the trilogy exploring memory. Without memory, we are nothing.

Fresh from cracking the mystery of his youth in Henley on the Thames, retired Detective Chief Superintendent Oliver Matthews is asked by a former colleague in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, for help. An unstable inmate in nearby high-security Gartree Prison wishes to confess to unsolved murders from the 1970s, but only to the man who put him there, the young DC Matthews. Was the prisoner’s memory playing tricks? Perhaps he thirsted for revenge, or could it be a genuine attempt to show remorse and provide closure to the victims’ families? Despite the potential danger and imminent marriage to the recently rediscovered love of his life, Matthews can’t resist yet another challenge to the misty recollections of his youth.

Nostalgia Man in The Isle of Wight is the final novel by Paul S. Bradley in the trilogy, which explores memory. Without memory, we are nothing.

Inspired by his successes resolving confused memories in Henley and Market Harborough, Oliver Matthews is invited by MI5 to the Isle of Wight to talk with the son of a former British spy. The son is about to publish a book about his father that contains unheard-of revelations that could turn the history of espionage upside down. Is this a question of false memory, or could the allegations be true? It proves more challenging and dangerous than any case during his long police career.