Mereo Books imprint: 139 books
Pulpits and Plain Sailing
Getting to the Top in the Marine Engineering Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
After leaving the Merchant Navy Kevin Cooney started out on his own with a humble back-garden engineering shop. A chance encounter led him to specialise in manufacturing stainless steel components for yachts, and it wasn't long before he caught the sailing bug himself. Thanks to ingenuity, determination...
The Technical Progressman
A Dockyard Apprentice works his way up
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
In 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 is set in the 1960s, taking up the story from the point where Bob transfers to the...
Tea and Me
An Englishman Abroad in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
When Rod Brown’s mother spotted an advertisement in the local paper for engineers to work for a company in India and Pakistan, Rod wasn’t sure it was quite his cup of tea. But he applied anyway. After sailing through the interviews and being offered the position, he began to wonder whether this was...
Famous Discoveries and their Discoverers
Fascinating account of the great discoveries of history, from ancient times through to the 20th century
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Did you know that Christopher Columbus did not discover America, or that after a Greek scholar found a way of measuring the Earth, it was 1300 years before the rest of the world would believe him? Or that nitrocellulose explosive was discovered when an inventor spilt some chemicals in the kitchen and...
The Burton Agnes Disaster
The forgotten wartime rail tragedy which killed twelve innocent men
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In the early hours of an autumn day in 1947, a truck laden with German prisoners-of-war and their English guards approached a level crossing in a sleepy Yorkshire village. At the same moment, an express train was thundering towards the crossing. For some inexplicable reason, with the train just yards...
Queen Margaret Tudor
The Story of a Courageous but Forgotten Monarch
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Queen Margaret II of Scotland (1489-1541) has been all but forgotten in the story of the Tudor dynasty established by her father, Henry VII. Misunderstood and underestimated by many historians, she has been seen as a spectator to history, her motivations described as foolish, self-seeking, corrupt or...
by Richard M Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
On 26th July 1986 a train derailed after striking a van at an open level crossing in a remote East Yorkshire village. The resulting carnage killed nine people, injured 42 and left dozens of survivors and families reeling from the shock for the rest of their lives. Now for the first time the full story...
The Path of the Moonlight
The memoirs of a sailor's wife
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
When Shelagh Bell was sorting through her mother's possessions after she had moved into a nursing home, she came across a pile of typescript, clumsily typed on one finger, many of the pages screwed up or out of order. She had found her mother’s memoirs, covering the years from her birth in 1900 to...
That Monstrous Regiment
The birth of women’s political emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, as well as the complex relationships between them. Up against what was essentially a man’s world, they proved highly adept at using women’s...
Through the Dragon's Gate
Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Jean O'Hara is now a prominent psychiatrist in London, but she grew up in a humble tenement flat in Hong Kong in the 1960s, the daughter of an Anglo- Burmese librarian (later a senior civil servant) and his Chinese wife. Her childhood was a simple one, sleeping on a straw mat in a tiny bedroom which...
Twisted Turban
A thought-provoking journey along cultural borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The true-story of life and love in an unfamiliar world. When Naginder Sehmi was born in Kenya nobody could have predicted the amazing life he was to live. From the scorched plains of Africa to the lofty mountains of Switzerland, Narender’s lifelong journey has been filled with unbelievable moments....
My Life in Pieces, Poems and Paragraphs
Verses, musings and original observations on a complex, wonderful world
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
A MENSA member who is on a constant quest for new understanding of everything about him, Jim Emerton, who describes himself as a writer, poet and philosopher, has travelled much of the world, from Nepal to Turkey and from Russia to the USA. In the world of international long-distance pigeon racing, he...
Burdened but Unruffled
The Story of a World War II Submarine and its Crew
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Launched in 1942 as World War II was raging, HMS Unruffled patrolled the oceans for the remainder of the hostilities, destroying nearly 40,000 tons of enemy shipping - and one train - before retiring, battered and bruised but glorious, and without losing a man. James Gregan's home town of Colchester...
Let the Wolves Devour
War, religion and espionage during the minority of Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1560
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This meticulously-researched book sets out in vivid detail the story of the conflict between Scotland and England in 1542-1560, one of the most violent and colourful episodes in British history. After the death in 1542 of King James V of Scotland, his wife Mary of Guise, mother of the future Mary Queen...