Mereo Books: 12 books

A crater on the planet Mercury is named Maria de Dominici. Born in 1645, she was the first established Maltese woman artist. She, and other women in Maltese history, are little known about. But Malta is much more than Knights of St John and Second World War courage. This book tells their story through...

This is Bob Cattell’s second book of short stories set in cricket-playing countries around the world. It follows his First XI, published in 2015. The stories in this collection are all new, with the exception of Turn, which first appeared under the title Benaud in issue 14 of The Nightwatchman....

From childhood, Laura Linn loved to go to the movies. Like many youngsters, she dreamed of one day becoming a successful actor like the stars she followed on the big screen. Years later, after a huge amount of hard work and thanks to her unflinching determination and her passion for her craft, Laura...

On the island of Andore, Oien, an old alchemist, knows how to harness the hidden power of a red stone called othium to create weapons of terrible destruction. In the Second Age the stone had fuelled brutal conquest, energised the industrialisation of the world and powered great craft to ravage the...

This is the fourth collection of Eddie’s poetry; he says that the verses hover somewhere between doggerel and light verse. He also says: Serious poetry is mainly melancholy, As serious poets are, mainly, off their trolley, So don’t expect anything grand, It’s simple fare, borderline bland. But...

In 1953, a shy 4-year-old moved with his parents from the warmth and security of life with his grandparents in Bushbury to start a new life in a new house on a new estate. We were the latest residents of Rough Hills Estate: a construction site, work in progress. We had shops, a pub and the promise...

There is every reason to lump together the Scottish and Catalan attempts at independence, as will immediately be evident upon the reader’s acquaintance with this book. No doubt there are figures in Catalonia equivalent to Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, since pathological psychology is presumably...

"This book is not about my destination in life; that was set before my birth. Rather, it is about the things that happened along the way." Olufunmilayo was born almost 70 years ago into an ethnic royal family in Ogun State, south-western Nigeria. Her father, John Mawobe (Eleyinwa of Eyinwa)...

More than 60 years since he was ordained as a priest and now well into his 80s, Francis Chadwick looks back on the highways and byways he has explored through an eventful life. He has spent his life travelling in two senses; exploring other lands with his family, and examining his own faith. Although...

Imagine you are looking forward to celebrating your ruby wedding anniversary with the only man you have ever loved, and suddenly he is taken away from you for ever through a series of medical mistakes and misunderstandings which turn an unexpected illness into a tragedy. How do you cope? Six years...

Doreen Kerry's first book, Pathway to the Moon, was a 'voyage of discovery' into the new life she found herself living after the tragic early death of her husband. Her second, When Angels Fall, featured an imaginary court hearing in which she staged an imaginary trial for those whose negligence she...

A virtual reality prank that goes terrifyingly wrong; a desperate father who will go to any lengths to stop his estranged wife from getting custody of their daughter; a brutal TV reality show that destroys one life too many. All these eight stories of the extraordinary, never before published, reflect...