Books with author Wood Mathew

Reginald Kat Redman, is the abandoned mixed race baby of a white English mother and a black American soldier. Conceived during the blitz he was raised in an orphanage in the East End of London. Kat is both his middle name and nickname. This story follows his life from birth to National Service and includes his marriage to Joan and their beloved children Ben and Maria. He makes lifelong friends and witnesses terrible tragedies along the way but retains his dignity throughout. The story has light hearted moments including the loss of his virginity, family parties with Karaoke, and some larger than life characters who he encounters along his journey through life. But there are also dramatic and poignant moments such as his son fighting in the first Gulf war, and a friend being beaten to death in a bar.Kat himself cheats death many times from which he earns his nickname, from nearly drowning in an icy lake to narrowly avoiding the shrapnel from an exploding boiler.This is a life story which includes racism and hardships, a story of love, betrayal, tragedy, hardship and ultimately, success, throughout which Kat remains true to himself. It is clear that whoever befriends Kat, their life is enriched through doing so.

Growing up with everything you've ever wanted sounds like a dream, but it leaves Jonjo Wells feeling unfulfilled and hollow. Destined for a life of boardrooms and working weekends, he decides to escape on a gap year. Free of his parents’ rules and expectations, he can finally discover his freedom. But the unsheltered world away from mum and dad is a tougher place than he’s imagined, and Jonjo is faced with a steep learning curve...

Excerpt from Rambles of a Physician, Vol. 1 of 2: Or a Midsummer DreamThe following pages claim to be nothing more than a hasty record of the thoughts passing through the mind, and a description of the events occurring and objects beheld, during an absence in Europe of four months. I make no apologies for contradictions, changes of opinion, or the different moods they exhibit, as these are the necessary accompaniments, I believe, of a mind open to conviction, or for the reception of additional light. No man can be the same to-morrow that he is to-day; consequently the apparent inconsistencies of the letters are allowed to remain as they were written, because they indicate, to me, at least, the various changes of mental attitude naturally produced by passing rapidly from one state of civilization or its opposite to another.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Rambles of a Physician, Vol. 1 of 2: Or a Midsummer DreamThe following pages claim to be nothing more than a hasty record of the thoughts passing through the mind, and a description of the events occurring and objects beheld, during an absence in Europe of four months. I make no apologies for contradictions, changes of opinion, or the different moods they exhibit, as these are the necessary accompaniments, I believe, of a mind open to conviction, or for the reception of additional light. No man can be the same to-morrow that he is to-day; consequently the apparent inconsistencies of the letters are allowed to remain as they were written, because they indicate, to me, at least, the various changes of mental attitude naturally produced by passing rapidly from one state of civilization or its opposite to another.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Rambles of a Physician, Vol. 2 of 2: Or a Midsummer DreamEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, by matthew woods, M.D In the Office of the Librarian of Congress. Washington, D. C.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Rambles of a Physician, Vol. 2 of 2: Or a Midsummer DreamEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, by matthew woods, M.D In the Office of the Librarian of Congress. Washington, D. C.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.