Nostalgia Man Trilogy

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

This fictional novel is the first of a trilogy exploring memory. It follows Oliver Matthews’ emotional and reflective journey unravelling the mysteries of his youth.

Oliver fell in love with three beautiful women during the late 1960s. Two left their mark on the man he became, but the third with Jenny was wildly intense. Yet he had no idea how it ended. All he could recall was leaving Henley-on-Thames, the town of his birth, with a sense of shame. His self-inflicted penance was to quit drinking, remain celibate, and dedicate himself to a police career, only to be plagued by a disturbing vision. Was it related to Jenny or something darker? The possibilities were driving him insane. There was only one way he could die in peace. After fifty-six years, he returns to investigate the probable cause.

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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.