Mereo Books imprint: 139 books
by Bob McHardy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Originally published in 1899, this collection of poems and songs by Montrose resident William F McHardy was forgotten for more than a century until the author’s great grandson, Bob McHardy, rediscovered it and decided to republish it in his ancestor’s memory, with most of the profits divided between...
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...
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...
From MTV to Mecca
How Islam inspired my life
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In the early 1990's Kristiane Backer was one of the very first presenters of MTV Europe. For some years she lived and breathed the international music scene, quickly gaining a cult following amongst viewers and becoming a darling of European press. As she reached the pinnacle of her success she realised...
Gallows Wedding
A Dark Novel of Witchcraft and Forbidden Love Set Against the Backdrop of Religious Upheaval in Henry VIII's Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
A strange, haunting story of two ill-starred lovers, set against the backdrop of the religious upheaval of Henry VIII's time. Hazel, a peasant girl marked by the witches' brand and a dangerous beauty, loves Black John, an outlaw and aristocrat, whom she rescues from the gallows. Together they struggle...
Drugs For All Reasons
Three Novellas by John Mann
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Absinthe, LSD, Speed and anti-cancer drugs - these three entertaining stories explore how drugs, both legal and otherwise, can affect the lives of those who make them and those who use them. The author, a former professor of chemistry, has previously written three popular science books: Murder, Magic...
It's Always Friday
Autobiography of a Film Insurance Troubleshooter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Richard Youens' decision to give up an interesting job in the wine trade to work in insurance might have seemed a recipe for a safe but boring career. It proved otherwise. Life for Youens had never been dull, but it suddenly became a lot more colourful when he joined a firm which specialised in film...
The Millionaire Clown
The rules for making it in business, entrepreneurship and leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
At 15, James Sinclair set up a little children’s entertainment business called Jimbo the Partyman. By the age of 18 he was turning over £1000 a week. By the time he was in his twenties, he owned two houses. But that was just the beginning. Today the Partyman Group puts on 7000 parties a year and owns...
Turbulent Times & Clear Skies
My Adventures in British Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
As a senior aeronautical engineer with Britain's flagship airlines in the 60s, 70s and 80s, it was engineer and playboy Nazie El Masry's job to keep these man-made birds in perfect flying condition. Turbulent Times and Clear Skies is the story of his colourful exploits in the most glamorous industry...
by Mary Vaudoyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Mary Vaudoyer was scarcely out of childhood when she observed to her mother that the only things that really mattered in life were clothes and philosophy. That statement proved to define the course of Mary’s extraordinary life. Born in 1918, Mary joined the Special Operations Executive at the outbreak...
The Chalkface and Beyond
Adventures in and out of the classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Eve Osborne began teaching in a primary school as a young woman and enjoyed a colourful career, working with fellow teachers who ranged from the inspirational to the incompetent and teaching children of all abilities and backgrounds. In this book she looks back on her time at the ‘chalkface’, reflecting...
Blind Courage
The Story of My Father, David Ronald Johnston 1924-1976
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
As a small boy in the 1920s, David Ronald Johnston was blinded when a dental procedure went horribly wrong. That did not stop him living a remarkably full life, qualifying as a top-level shorthand typist, becoming a personal secretary and then going on to take increasingly senior positions in the charity...
Look What Chemistry Did For Me
A life in and out of the lab
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This is the story of a life spent largely in the world of chemistry, mainly as a college or university-level teacher. It is also the story of an ordinary boy, a child of the war years, who rose from an unpromising start, leaving school at 16 with four mediocre O Levels, to become more successful and...
A Dockyard Matey Makes Good
The life and times of Robert Smith (Nige)
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
In his first book, 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 was set in the 1960s, taking up the story from the point where Bob...