Mereo Books imprint: 139 books

Rachel Vogeleisen is a professional photographer specialising in women's portraits and fashion. Her fascination with the Second World War was sparked by her discovery as a child that her grandfather, from Alsace, had had to fight for the Germans against Russia. This book, the culmination of ten years...

When Alan Higgins joined the Royal Navy at the outbreak of World War II, he was not yet sixteen years old. But his youth could not save him from the horrors of war and he was soon serving aboard the cruiser HMS Edinburgh. On May 1st 1942, HMS Edinburgh was sunk by a German U-Boat in the icy Barents Sea...

Athol Varley already had a pilot’s licence when he joined the RAF in 1941, but his eyesight precluded him from flying in combat. Instead a disappointed Athol spent much of the war bored, frustrated and dreaming of his sweetheart, the woman with whom he would spend the rest of his life. His diary records...

Jim Emerton is a philosopher, a poet and a nature lover as well as an internationally-known pigeon racing expert. His travels around the world and his explorations of the rural environment near his home have given him endless food for thought about the natural world. These little pieces are his musings...

With a documented history stretching back a thousand years, Dunster Castle in Somerset is one of Britain's oldest and most intriguing great buildings, its turrets evoking centuries of warfare, dark deeds, bloodshed and treachery. What makes it particularly unusual is the prominent role women have played...

Back in 1987, longing to get away from her domestic routine as a wife and mother but living uncomfortably close to the breadline, Fran Adams scrimped and saved until she had scraped together just enough cash to take her teenage sons on a cycling tour of Brittany. They found themselves having to deal...

Royal Air Force Coastal Command was the organisation charged with keeping the sea lanes clear around the coasts of Britain for the best part of half a century, from immediately after the First World War until the 1960s. In the decades after the Second World War, John Campbell served as a Coastal Command...

In his teens Royce Scarlett was a bit of a tearaway, regularly in trouble with the law. But he was also devoted to his mum, who stuck by him through thick and thin. When matters came to a head and Royce was sent to prison for drug dealing, he began to see the error of his ways and was well on the path...

This book tells the story of three small Lancashire villages and their contrasting fortunes in the Great War. One was among the fortunate few in England which passed through not only the First World War but the Second without losing a single man a ‘Doubly Thankful’ village. The second survived the...

Many of us look back on our schooldays with loathing, but not Diane Langdon. Her years at Fyfield County Boarding School in Essex were among the happiest of her life, and in this book she explains why, from the pranks and the (occasional) punishments to the various subjects and the teachers who taught...

"Failure to change will ensure that you will die at the age socially decided by yourself and your family" says Anthony Kearney, author of The Pursuit of Happiness. Once they're retired, many men become potterers, frittering away their time on all the little jobs they could never find time to do before...

This book is the sequel to The Merlin Legacy, in which a young man called Peter unexpectedly found himself taking on a terrifying responsibility - witnessing the deeds of dragons in their centuries-long fight against evil, and contributing to the making of history. In this second and final part, the...

Sweeping through fifteen centuries of life in the heart of southern England, this epic novel records the lives of the ordinary folk of Britain from the end of the Roman occupation through to the late 16th century. The author has brought to life a colorful range of characters, from serfs to kings, from...

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. He published his first volume, Poetry Lite,...