Mereo Books imprint: 139 books
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...
Belfast to Benghazi
Untold challenges of war
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Rupert Wieloch has seen more than his share of front-line military action, having served as a platoon commander during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, before leading a squadron during the Gulf War in 1990. Deploying to Bosnia with the United Nations, his troops became renowned by the press as “Saviours...
Approved by God?
How to Serve God and Live Doing His Will as Commanded
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
How are we to please God and learn how to do what He tells us is right? The author sets out for us what God's approval means and how we can earn it. Quoting extensively from the Bible, she explains the importance of faith, obedience and giving if we are to please God and do His will. This book is a wake-up call to Christians who are not yet on the right path
Ice Cream, Gasmasks and God
A young girl grows up in the war years
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Joyce Lovely grew up in Liverpool during World War 2, her family narrowly surviving a blitz which severely damaged their home and killed two thousand of their fellow Liverpudlians in a single week. She and her young friends dreamed of peace and safety, but not as much as they dreamed about ice-cream...
The Iceland Watch
A Land That Thinks Outwards and Forwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
With a population of just 329,000 (barely more than Nottingham), Iceland is the most thinly-populated country in Europe, and 80% of it is uninhabited. Despite this, in the 1100 years since humans first settled there, the Icelanders have built a remarkably resourceful, diverse and robust community - and...
Blood on the Beach
Managing the Impact of Political Crises on Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Political acts of violence in tourist destinations, such as the attacks in Paris, Ankara and Sousse, have a disastrous and long-lasting effect on local people and businesses, to say nothing of the tourists themselves. In these days of instant communication, the effect is all the more dramatic and farreaching,...
What Price Success
One man's 34 year search for his GI father
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Norman Spencer spent his young years believing his mother’s story that his father had been an English soldier, killed in World War II. It was only when he went through her papers after her death in 1976 that he realised the truth his father had been an American GI who had enjoyed a brief affair with...
A Mishmash of Life
The Royal Navy years
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
The Royal Navy Years is a sequel to A Mishmash of Life, the author’s first book about his early formative years in Oxford. This new book continues with the life of a sixteen-year-old boy entering into the Royal Navy in the late 1950’s. With humour and touches of sadness, it portrays the reality of...
In Pursuit of Knowledge
A Pukhtun's Life, from East to West
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Born a humble village boy in Pakistan's Swat Valley, Sher Khan had the curiosity, the intelligence and the determination to succeed in a career in medicine, becoming a senior registrar in a UK hospital. Sensitive, wide-ranging and often very funny, Sher's story portrays the life of a wise and kind man...
Judas Goat
The Kennet narrow boat mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Sitting in a Lloyd Loom chair on a Narrow Boat, moored on the Kennet and Avon Canal, a dead man stares into oblivion. Who is he and what is his name? Chief Inspector Michael Lambert from Thames Valley Police Authority unravels a murder case which stretches from Reading to Bulgaria, South Africa to Belorussia,...
Intake 131 - memoirs of a rhodesian army cadet
Memoirs of a Rhodesian Army Cadet
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
In 1973, Sandy Sanderson attended School of Infantry in Gwelo, in what was then central Rhodesia, for officer training. Now, more than 40 years on, he has written a book based on the diary he kept. The result is a frank, detailed and sometimes humorous account of the training as it happened. The book...