Mereo Books imprint: 139 books

John Postgate describes this autobiography as essentially ‘a book about doing science’, and while it is an entertaining account of his life in the UK and abroad as he rose to international prominence in microbiology, it is also a book about playing and listening to his beloved jazz. Away from lab...

Laura Riding was a major poet whose poems, though widely admired and influential, have been little understood. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s she was 'a devout advocate of poetry' believing that 'to go to poetry is the most ambitious act of the mind'. Her subsequent renunciation of poetry in the 1940s...

Jim Emerton is a philosopher and a poet as well as an internationally known pigeon racing expert. His travels around the world and his explorations of the natural world near his home have given him endless material as he muses about the wonders and foibles of nature and the folly of man. His verses...

With a documented history stretching back a thousand years, Dunster Castle on the Somerset coast is one of Britain’s oldest and most intriguing great buildings, its turrets evoking centuries of siege warfare, dark deeds, bloodshed and treachery. Dunster’s rich and colourful story covers more than...

An adventure story about a boy and his dog, Tutu, who, a thousand years ago, landed by mistake at the bottom of the world. Kahu is the son of the Chief of a peaceful tribe living on a small tropical island in the middle of the world. Their safety has been threatened by distant, marauding savages. Navigating...

The letters Gillian Griffith wrote to her elderly, demented mother were never intended to be read - they were simply Gillian’s way of dealing with her own anger and guilt towards her high-handed, infuriating and impossibly challenging mother. To Gillian’s own surprise, “as the words bounced back...

Versatile Verse is a collection of the author’s poems written over many years, in many cases for family and friends. The verses reflect the author’s varied life, lived out most notably in the halls of Oxford University and the battlefields of Italy, where he served as a young officer during World...

Can training in the martial arts help you in everyday life? In Pragmatic Karate Mark Jennings argues that it certainly can. Provided you have a thorough grounding in the principles of this ancient fighting art and take the right approach, both physically and mentally, the karate moves you learn in the...

Maria Sharp was born Maria Zdenka Besan in Croatia in 1941, just after the Nazis had invaded her country, and as a young child she witnessed 'events that imprinted themselves upon her soul forever'. Many years later, having married an American and settled in the USA, she has written this book for her...

Sally Leiper was born in Aberdeen in 1935 and has lived north of the border all her life. From thoughts beside a much-missed dog’s graveside and the joys of shepherding to the perils of modern communication technology, the wisdom of Granny’s proverbs and the unpleasantness of milk pudding, her charming...

Occupational fraud - stealing from your employer - is booming across the globe, costing companies millions. In the USA it is the fastestgrowing form of crime, and in the UK it is responsible for one in five small business failures. In a survey in the UK, 72 per cent of employees admitted stealing from...

Why do some men despise women so much that they will do anything to undermine them, destroy their confidence and show them how useless they think they are? As Olive goes through life struggling to lead a harmonious life with her husband James, she is thwarted at every turn. Looking back, she remembers...

In 1977, her eighty-second year, Keturah Daveney began to write down her memories of her early life in Walworth in south-east London, where she had lived from 1900, when she was five years old, until her marriage. The lives of working-class Londoners in the early years of the century and the ups and...

Eddie Thompson is an expatriate Manxman who settled in Milton Keynes with his Welsh wife Enid and daughters Kirsty and Gill in 1981. His verses are based on his experiences, observations and thoughts about life and are for the most part refreshingly brief. They cover a variety of subjects from getting...