Mereo imprint: 141 books
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Vainglory begins in France in 1429, the year of the Siege of Orleans, as Victoire de Gloriole regains possession of the family castle from the English following the Battle of Agincourt. Having consolidated his position by marrying a beautiful Englishwoman, Victoire sets out to rebuild a dynasty and a...
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...
How Not to Write a Book
An insider’s guide to successful writing and publishing for beginners
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Asked to name their ideal job, more people in the UK say they would like to be an author than anything else. Yet with more than 200,000 books now being published here a year and over two million worldwide, the competition is getting fiercer by the minute. As editor in chief of a successful self-publishing...
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...
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...