Mereo Books imprint: 139 books
Edith and the Stolen Fans
When someone stole Edith Arneau’s valuable fan collection, they picked the wrong victim…
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Edith Arneau may be in her sixties, but her unruly behaviour makes her the despair of the staff in the home where she lives in retirement. However, her resourcefulness, her background as an actress and her remarkable climbing skills come in handy when her valuable cabinet of antique fans, collected during...
Memoir of M H Khan
Turbulence in the Indian Subcontinent
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Musharraf Husain Khan, born in 1931 in what was then part of East Pakistan, embarked on a naval career which eventually led to his promotion to Admiral. He became a leading figure in the government of the new country of Bangladesh, and as Chief of the Naval Staff in the 1970s he even served briefly as...
Roads Taken
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
A child of the Second World War, Alan Young developed two passions early in life; music and literature. In his twenties, having flunked an interview for the BBC, he decided to leave the world of academia behind and seek adventure in East Africa, using his academic experience to teach native Kenyans under...
Stay Lucky
Trapped by an offer he can’t refuse - and a girl he can’t resist
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Lured to Florence by a false business proposition, retired agent Steve Cromarty is framed for a terrorist attack. Deeply implicated and badly needing a pay cheque, he is unable to refuse involvement in a smuggling scheme. But Cromarty is his own man and he's determined to find out what his ruthless former...
A Good Man and a Brave Man
The Story of a Gloucestershire Soldier, Cecil Thomas Packer, 1885 - 1916
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Cecil Packer was a farm labourer, a factory worker, a shepherd and a devoted family man from Wiltshire who like so many others was sent to France to fight for his country in the First World War, and never returned. Cecil survived both the Gallipoli and Somme campaigns, so for his descendants, his death...
With Gun & Gown
The autobiography of a soldier & scholar
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Norman Friskney’s experiences as a young man were defined by two environments which could scarcely offer a greater contrast the halls of Oxford University, where his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, and the battlefields of southern Italy, where he served as a young...
by Martin Berry
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Melina and her friend Lisa cannot understand why they have developed magical powers - until they are whisked away from their homes in the middle of the night by the Gamlyns, a race of small, green people from another world and another time. The Gamlyns derive special powers from an extraordinary sapphire...
Postman's Knock
The grass is always greener turned out to be an artists impression, not real life at all.
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
The old proverb `The grass is always greener' turned out to be an artist's impression, not real life at all. When Charlotte Whitfield - known to everyone as Charlie - receives a letter from her best friend Libby, she has no idea that her life is about to change forever. Libby and James, Charlie's husband,...
Delayed Reaction
An anthology of desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
A phone sex worker who seizes a golden opportunity to turn the tables on a sinister abuser; a jailbird who finds an unexpected new outlet for his talent for forgery; a conjuror whose spurned wife discovers the secret of his most terrifying stage stunt. Ian P. Oliver has written a dozen short stories...
Marching Orders, A Backslider's Memoir
Memoirs of a Backslider
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Clive Hopkins's parents were Salvation Army Officers, which meant their sons had to endure six hours of religious meetings every Sunday (and no football), most kinds of pleasure (including girls) were off limits and friendships were disrupted by frequent moves to new postings. When finally at the age...
Wolves Within
What really happened to Sathi’s mother the mother she never knew?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Throughout her life, Sathi has carried the burden of her grief and guilt over the death of her own mother while giving birth to her. But then she starts investigating and unearths hidden documents that suggest her mother did not die in childbirth after all. This shocking discovery sends Sathi to India,...
Sergeant Jack
The adventures of a doggy army
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The Second World War has just finished, doggy food supplies are desperately short, and the Terriertorial Army has discovered that all its carefully-saved treats have been stolen in a daring raid by a marauding pack of bulldogs from across the Channel. Major Freddie, the Airedale commander, calls an emergency...
A Deadly Memory
What Happened to Joe's Beautiful Wife and Can He Face the Truth About Their Marriage?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Joe's addicted to his beautiful, charismatic wife. She, on the other hand, is just addicted - to alcohol and worse. while he's fighting to keep their marriage, and their family, together, catastrophe strikes again and again. How will Joe pick up the pieces of their lives and keep the family together?...
A Peculiarly English Education
Sex, Strife and Survival in a Preparatory School from Hell
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In the bitter winter of 1947, in a train rattling through the bleak flatlands of eastern England, a small boy clutches his teddy bear and wonders what the new school he has been shipped off to will prove to be like. Meanwhile on another train, a young man fresh from war service is heading gloomily towards...