Mereo imprint: 141 books
The Ladies of Dunster Castle
Grand Dames, Wicked Wives and Other Tales of a Historic Castle's Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
With a documented history stretching back a thousand years, Dunster Castle in Somerset is one of Britain's oldest and most intriguing great buildings, its turrets evoking centuries of warfare, dark deeds, bloodshed and treachery. What makes it particularly unusual is the prominent role women have played...
Travels on the Breadline
Cycling into Adventure Across the Channel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Back in 1987, longing to get away from her domestic routine as a wife and mother but living uncomfortably close to the breadline, Fran Adams scrimped and saved until she had scraped together just enough cash to take her teenage sons on a cycling tour of Brittany. They found themselves having to deal...
Royal Air Force Coastal Command
A short history of the maritime air force which protected the United Kingdom’s shipping during WW I and WW II
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
Royal Air Force Coastal Command was the organisation charged with keeping the sea lanes clear around the coasts of Britain for the best part of half a century, from immediately after the First World War until the 1960s. In the decades after the Second World War, John Campbell served as a Coastal Command...
I'm Still Here Mum
The story of Royce Scarlett, a young man who lived too fast and died too soon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In his teens Royce Scarlett was a bit of a tearaway, regularly in trouble with the law. But he was also devoted to his mum, who stuck by him through thick and thin. When matters came to a head and Royce was sent to prison for drug dealing, he began to see the error of his ways and was well on the path...
Thankful and not so Thankful
How the Great War changed three English villages forever
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This book tells the story of three small Lancashire villages and their contrasting fortunes in the Great War. One was among the fortunate few in England which passed through not only the First World War but the Second without losing a single man a ‘Doubly Thankful’ village. The second survived the...
Apple Pie Beds and Eggy Bread
An affectionate memoir of boarding school life
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Many of us look back on our schooldays with loathing, but not Diane Langdon. Her years at Fyfield County Boarding School in Essex were among the happiest of her life, and in this book she explains why, from the pranks and the (occasional) punishments to the various subjects and the teachers who taught...
Life Begins at 60
How to Jump off the Retirement Scrapheap and Start Living
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
"Failure to change will ensure that you will die at the age socially decided by yourself and your family" says Anthony Kearney, author of The Pursuit of Happiness. Once they're retired, many men become potterers, frittering away their time on all the little jobs they could never find time to do before...
The Merlin Destiny
He was chosen to help the dragons in their age-old battle against evil now he must recruit a successor
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This book is the sequel to The Merlin Legacy, in which a young man called Peter unexpectedly found himself taking on a terrifying responsibility - witnessing the deeds of dragons in their centuries-long fight against evil, and contributing to the making of history. In this second and final part, the...
I Am England
An Epic Novel of Passion, Hardship and Bravery Through 1500 Years of English History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Sweeping through fifteen centuries of life in the heart of southern England, this epic novel records the lives of the ordinary folk of Britain from the end of the Roman occupation through to the late 16th century. The author has brought to life a colorful range of characters, from serfs to kings, from...
Poetry Free Range
More Verses About Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Eddie Thompson is an expatriate Manxman who settled in Milton Keynes with his Welsh wife Enid and daughters Kirsty and Gill in 1981. His verses are based on his experiences, observations and thoughts about life and are for the most part refreshingly brief. He published his first volume, Poetry Lite,...
The Sword of Hachiman
A novel of early Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
At the dawn of the Shogun era two mighty warrior clans, the Minamoto and the Taira, struggle for power under the Cloistered Emperor. The Taira are in uneasy control, but the three Minamoto sons, separated and exiled at birth, are secretly reuniting to conquer them and avenge their father's bloody death....
Just Because
A collection of poems, aphorisms and observations about people and feelings, love and loss, want and desire, happiness and sadness, childhood and being grown up, how people look and how they really are deep inside.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
A collection of poems, aphorisms and observations about people and feelings, love and loss, want and desire, happiness and sadness, childhood and being grown up, how people look and how they really are deep inside.
H is for Hell
A thought-provoking collection of dark, unnerving poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
H is for Hell is another thought-provoking collection of dark poetry by Lance Barnwell, author of Dereliction. Sometimes unnerving, often creepy, but always horrific. Psst… Death; it creeps, yeah? And it creeps For what is owed is overdue A floorboard creaks, it never sleeps And now it’s here… it’s come for you…
by Angela Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Life for the newly widowed Harriet Capel is not expected to hold any surprises. It will be spent watching over the vicissitudes of her children's marriages and relationships, and looking after the grandchildren. That is, until she sees Oliver Gaunt again. He is her daughter-in-law's father. The relationship...