Mereo imprint: 141 books
by Bob McHardy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Originally published in 1899, this collection of poems and songs by Montrose resident William F McHardy was forgotten for more than a century until the author’s great grandson, Bob McHardy, rediscovered it and decided to republish it in his ancestor’s memory, with most of the profits divided between...
It's Always Friday
Autobiography of a Film Insurance Troubleshooter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Richard Youens' decision to give up an interesting job in the wine trade to work in insurance might have seemed a recipe for a safe but boring career. It proved otherwise. Life for Youens had never been dull, but it suddenly became a lot more colourful when he joined a firm which specialised in film...
The Millionaire Clown
The rules for making it in business, entrepreneurship and leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
At 15, James Sinclair set up a little children’s entertainment business called Jimbo the Partyman. By the age of 18 he was turning over £1000 a week. By the time he was in his twenties, he owned two houses. But that was just the beginning. Today the Partyman Group puts on 7000 parties a year and owns...
Turbulent Times & Clear Skies
My Adventures in British Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
As a senior aeronautical engineer with Britain's flagship airlines in the 60s, 70s and 80s, it was engineer and playboy Nazie El Masry's job to keep these man-made birds in perfect flying condition. Turbulent Times and Clear Skies is the story of his colourful exploits in the most glamorous industry...
by Mary Vaudoyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Mary Vaudoyer was scarcely out of childhood when she observed to her mother that the only things that really mattered in life were clothes and philosophy. That statement proved to define the course of Mary’s extraordinary life. Born in 1918, Mary joined the Special Operations Executive at the outbreak...
The Chalkface and Beyond
Adventures in and out of the classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Eve Osborne began teaching in a primary school as a young woman and enjoyed a colourful career, working with fellow teachers who ranged from the inspirational to the incompetent and teaching children of all abilities and backgrounds. In this book she looks back on her time at the ‘chalkface’, reflecting...
Blind Courage
The Story of My Father, David Ronald Johnston 1924-1976
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
As a small boy in the 1920s, David Ronald Johnston was blinded when a dental procedure went horribly wrong. That did not stop him living a remarkably full life, qualifying as a top-level shorthand typist, becoming a personal secretary and then going on to take increasingly senior positions in the charity...
Look What Chemistry Did For Me
A life in and out of the lab
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This is the story of a life spent largely in the world of chemistry, mainly as a college or university-level teacher. It is also the story of an ordinary boy, a child of the war years, who rose from an unpromising start, leaving school at 16 with four mediocre O Levels, to become more successful and...
A Dockyard Matey Makes Good
The life and times of Robert Smith (Nige)
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
In his first book, A Dockyard Apprentice’s Story, Robert Smith (‘Nige’ to his mates) told of his formative years as a young trainee in Chatham Dockyard, where he trained as an engine fitter and turner. The Technical Progressman was set in the 1960s, taking up the story from the point where Bob...
From MTV to Mecca
How Islam inspired my life
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In the early 1990's Kristiane Backer was one of the very first presenters of MTV Europe. For some years she lived and breathed the international music scene, quickly gaining a cult following amongst viewers and becoming a darling of European press. As she reached the pinnacle of her success she realised...
In Their Own Words
Women who served in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Rachel Vogeleisen is a professional photographer specialising in women's portraits and fashion. Her fascination with the Second World War was sparked by her discovery as a child that her grandfather, from Alsace, had had to fight for the Germans against Russia. This book, the culmination of ten years...
You're in the Navy Now
A teenage recruit sees front-line action in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
When Alan Higgins joined the Royal Navy at the outbreak of World War II, he was not yet sixteen years old. But his youth could not save him from the horrors of war and he was soon serving aboard the cruiser HMS Edinburgh. On May 1st 1942, HMS Edinburgh was sunk by a German U-Boat in the icy Barents Sea...
Waiting for Something to Happen (Athol Varley)
An RAF serviceman’s reflections on life and love in WW2
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Athol Varley already had a pilot’s licence when he joined the RAF in 1941, but his eyesight precluded him from flying in combat. Instead a disappointed Athol spent much of the war bored, frustrated and dreaming of his sweetheart, the woman with whom he would spend the rest of his life. His diary records...
Jim's World of Creatures
Musings and Original Observations on Nature and the Creatures of the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Jim Emerton is a philosopher, a poet and a nature lover as well as an internationally-known pigeon racing expert. His travels around the world and his explorations of the rural environment near his home have given him endless food for thought about the natural world. These little pieces are his musings...