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Matthew Pointon
The Parish of Draycott-en-le-Moors in North Staffordshire is one of great antiquity and interest. In this book its fascinating story is followed from the earliest times up until the present-day…
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The first volume of Matthew E. Pointon's short stories covering the years 2000 to 2005. This varied collection of tales, arranged in the order in which they were written, has…
The second volume of Matthew E. Pointon's short stories covering the years 2006 to 2010. This varied collection of tales, arranged in the order in which they were written, has…
The fourth volume of Matthew E. Pointon's short stories covering the years 2015 to 2016. This varied collection of tales, arranged in the order in which they were written, has…
Thomas and Tanya go on a trip to the Peak District. When rain falls and they seek shelter, they become embroiled in an exciting adventure.
An account of the land and sea journey made by Matt Pointon and his comrade Tom van den Ouden across Asia from Toyama in Japan to Konotop in Ukraine in…
A travelogue detailing Matt Pointon's 2014 journeyings around Armenia and Nagorno-Karabagh.
Matt Pointon takes us on a trip around the holy sites of Staffordshire and the surrounding area in a bid to discover the county's early Christian history and prove that…
A short life of this little-known Saxon saint who lived and preached in Staffordshire during the Dark Ages.
An account of Matt Pointon's journey in 2013 from Konotop in Ukraine to Bucharest in Romania visiting places like Chernobyl, Kiev, Odessa, Chisinau, Tiraspol, Iasi and Suceava.
An account of Matt Pointon's 2001-2 journey to Hong Kong and the Philippines with his friend Ryan.
Matt Pointon's second novel deals with Bulgaria during the years of immense change following the collapse of communism. Told through the eyes of Viktor, a teenager from Tutrakan, who meets…
A travelogue charting two brothers' trip along the A470, the only road that links the north of Wales to its south.
Matt Pointon's account of his 2015 visit to the north eastern corner of the DPRK, better known to the world as North Korea, perhaps the most isolated and unconnected nation…
An account of Matt Pointon's 2013 journey to India and the UAE.
Matt Pointon's first-ever travelogue, the account of a trip to Vietnam and Cambodia in 2001.
A short life of this little-known Saxon saint who lived and preached in Staffordshire during the 6th and 7th centuries.
An account of Matt Pointon's 2002 journey to Seoul and Indonesia.
An account of Matt Pointon's travels through the lands of the Albanians - Albania and Kosova - in 1996 and 2009.
A rip-roaring adventure in the style of Buchan involving three eccentric Victorian adventurers, an enormous golden bell and a painting by one of the apostles. The Lost Treasure of Onoguria…
The second adventure of Thomas and Tanya. This time our heroes are on holiday in Budapest. Whilst in the steamroom, Tom overhears a conversation which plunges them into another adventure.
The third volume of Matthew E. Pointon's short stories covering the years 2011 to 2014. This varied collection of tales, arranged in the order in which they were written, has…
Set in an alternative version of the 1990s, The Line imagines that the fate which befell Korea after World War II - division along ideological lines - also befell Britain…
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Volume 5 of my short stories written between 2017 and 2018 whilst I was completing my MA in Creative Writing as I travelled up and down the country on the…
A short life of this little-known Saxon saint who lived and preached in Crowland during the 7th and 8th centuries.
A rip-roaring adventure in the style of Buchan involving eccentric Victorian adventurers, Bible-thumping missionaries, entrancing Oriental sisters, the Foreign Secretary and a rather unusual Laotian king.
A rip-roaring adventure in the style of Buchan involving eccentric Victorian adventurers, spies involved in the Great Game, mystical preachers, mysterious veiled ladies and a city straight out of the…
A rip-roaring adventure in the style of Buchan involving the descendants of the original Onogurian Three. Caroline Letchworth and Major Finneston are joined by the younger Onogurians and travel to…
A rip-roaring adventure in the style of Buchan involving the descendants of the original Onogurian Three. Caroline Letchworth and Major Finneston are sent by the SIS on a dangerous assignment…
A rip-roaring adventure about a young Mary Hartley who later stars in the Onogurian Three novels. In the 1830s, as a child, she goes down to play by the canal…
Matt Pointon spends three days explore the fragments of Byzantium that survive in and around the modern-day city of Istanbul.
An account of a journey across Georgia and Turkey made in the summer of 2010.