Melrose Books imprint: 69 books

In 19th Century Australia two families, the Everests and the Deres, meet by chance and their lives are forever entwined. Lifelong friends, ‘Blue’ Everest and Matthew Dere, are true showmen born and take ship to England in the hope of joining a circus. They travel around the highways and byways...

When Andrew and his sister, Polly, arrive in Devon they are soon to realise that this is not going to be a normal holiday. The appearance and disappearance of the ghost of a strange teenage boy leads Andrew to discover a secret hidden in the garden of his aunt’s old house. As the story continues,...

The area covered by this book is mainly that of the five waggonways delivering coal to their staiths on the River Tyne at Lemington from collieries at Wylam, Heddon, Throckley, Walbottle, Hollywell and Black Callerton. The main objective has been to place the early wooden waggonways fully in the context...

A Nipper’s Tale is the delightful biography of Alan Rampling who spent most of his working life doing something he loved – gardening. Growing up in 1950s Preston, he left school with no qualifications and no idea of what he wanted to do with his life. One day he walked into the Preston parks department...

The Cleveland Way is one of Britain’s oldest long distance walks. The 100 mile route starts in Helmsley skirting the western edge of the North York Moors National Park. On reaching the coastal town of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, at its northern extremity, the path turns south-east and then goes down the...

John Paul Jones was born in Scotland and apprenticed for seamanship at Whitehaven. Later in America, he became a captain of a war ship. In 1778 America was fighting for its declared independence. In an audacious attack on England, John Paul Jones had returned to raid Whitehaven and subsequently Scotland...

In her new book, Helen Womack turns herself upside down on a journey of self-discovery to Oz. At the same time, the land Down Under is turned inside out, as Helen explores the continent from a starting point at its desert heart, rather than its coast and cities. This is an Australia that is both familiar and very foreign.

Frank and Sean are two ordinary men who are mates. The two become involved in a series of events mainly because of an unquenchable curiosity and a penchant to expose themselves to life threatening situations. Sean, once a banker, now a commercial fisherman, owns an isolated shack in Stanley on the...

Globetrotter, artist and linguist, living in the South of France in Provence, the author travelled widely during the sixties and seventies. In these diaries, recorded on a day to day basis, she shares with us her vivid impressions of the countries she visited. Impelled by a love for ancient history...

In these eleven meticulously constructed cases written in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the intellectual prowess of Sherlock Holmes, the sleuth hound, is tested to the utmost. Once again, ably assisted by his friend and biographer, Dr John H Watson MD, an always welcome, steadying influence...

It is December 1875 and the recently established Railway Constabulary is faced with its first murder case. Sergeant Sam Spray is in charge and along with his assistant Constable William Archer they explore the railways, canals and wild country of the White Peak. The many twists and turns of the case...

Incontinent Continent The Comic is based on Chapter 10½ of the book The Incontinent Continent

This is the first collection of short stories by M J David. Drawn from personal experience and life in general, this eclectic mix of stories are captivating and will leave the reader wanting more. Some will have you asking questions about your life and how you live. Others will leave you with a sense...

In December 1949, I, as a young man of 18, arrived in a different world – RAF Shaibah, 7 miles or so from Basra in Iraq, to do my (extended) two-year National Service. This book was compiled some twenty years ago, when the memories of the events were still very clear, it was, in the telling of the...