Howard Matthews

Sub-genre: Cosy, Historical, Humour, mystery

Howard of Warwick bears sole responsibility for the entire medieval crime comedy genre.

Having been told by too many publishers and agents that there was no such thing as medieval crime comedy, he self-published the first Chronicle of Brother Hermitage and now has 30 of the things. Then there are historical fiction titles in which real people flounder about in the great events of the past.

Set firmly around 1066 and the arrival of the Normans, the chronicles are regular best sellers in the UK and US and have bothered the Amazon top 20.

With a background in radio and television comedy, including a BFI prize for drama series, Howard created The Funny Book Company and publishes online and through the mainstream book trade.

He is also a member of the SOA and Novelists Inc in the USA and talks on self-publishing and comedy writing.

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Other Awards

BBC/BFI prize for Drama series

Books by Howard Matthews

• Not Another Murder

  

• The Bayeux Embroidery

  

• Hermitage, Wat and Some Murder or Other

  

• Hermitage, Wat and Some Druids: We’re Going On A Murder

  

• Hermitage, Wat and Some Nuns

  

• No Murder Here

  

• How Many Monks?

  

• Murder ‘Midst Merriment

  

• Murder Can Be Murder

  

• Return to The Dingle

  

• The Investigator’s Kingdom

  

• Murder Most Murderous

  

• The Investigator’s Apprentice

  

• The Investigator’s Wedding

  

• The 1066 via Derby

  

• The King’s Investigator

  

• A Mayhem of Murderous Monks

  

• A Murder of Convenience

  

• The King’s Investigator Part II

  

• The Chester Chasuble

  

• The Hermes Parchment

  

• The 1066 From Normandy

  

• The 1066 To Hastings

  

• A Murder for Mistress Cwen

  

• A Murder for Master Wat

  

• A Murder for Brother Hermitage

  

• Brother Hermitage’s Christmas Gift

  

• The Domesday Book II (Still Not That One)

  

• Brother Hermitage in Shorts

  

• The Case of The Clerical Cadaver

  

• The Case of The Curious Corpse

  

• The Case of The Cantankerous Carcass

  

• The Tapestry of Death

  

• The Domesday Book (No, Not That One)

  

• The Magna Carta (Or Is It?)

  

• The Heretics of De’Ath

  

• The Garderobe of Death

  

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