Books with author Richard Meryman

While trolling through the family’s past, Zach and Angela uncover the story of how the first McAlisters came to Australia.It all started in the quite Dorset town of Cerne Abbas during the Napoleonic Wars.Vicar’s daughter, Christina Proud marries smithy, and sometime smuggler, Will Jenkins, who soon falls foul of the law. Will is given a choice — take the King’s shilling or the noose. So, Will joins the army and Christina’s begins her odyssey as a camp follower.The battalion is quickly deployed to Spain to join General Arthur Wellesley’s Peninsula Army, fighting against the French. Threatened by platoon Sergeant Jack Newell and with her husband powerless to help, Christina is befriended by Lieutenant Jonathan McAlister who offers her protection.With the French Army massing at Talavera, the battalion marches into battle. Under the blistering Spanish sun, Christina must now fight for her life and those she loves. Beset on all sides by bandits, partisans, deserters, French cavalry and the squalor of a military campaign gone wrong. Living by her wits and managing to get by with broken Spanish. she tries to make her escape to a safe haven and hopefully a ship back to Blighty. But does she make it?Download and read Christina's account of her ghastly experiences in a foreign land.

"Max the Littlest Chihuahua" is a new children's book series about a tiny Chihuahua purchased for a little girl named Emme by her mommy and daddy. What Emme and her mommy and daddy don't realize is that Max is a special Chihuahua, whose stature grows or diminishes based on his moods. If he is scared he shrinks in size, and if he is mad he grows accordingly. This is a fun book for kindergarten children or early readers. This is the second book series by Mr. Heyman for children. The first named "Jack the Surfer Dude" is an International best seller.

This is a book which was created for your readers with more simplistic subject matter and story content. It is a fictional account about a tiny, tiny Chihuahua purchased by a family for their young daughter. After taking the puppy home the daughter discovers that Max (the Chihuahua) has special powers which allow him to shrink or grown much bigger depending on his moods. This book is created for very young readers, and is designed to create interest with pictures and dialogue, while presenting a theme. A small animal who rises to the occasion to protect his friends, loyalty, bravery, honor are inherent themes.

Danny McAlister and Mad Monty are on the run once more. They find themselves working for General Claire Chennaults China Air Transport only to be dragged into the last throes of the Chinese Civil War and then onto Korea where Danny learns first-hand the horrors of battle. But far worse is yet to come.After the Korean cease-fire, General Chennault assigns Danny to Vietnam where he rejoins his old flame, med-student, Angela Holyman. Unwittingly Danny and Angela are thrown into the desperate, bloody climax of the siege at Dien Bien Phu.10% of the publishers profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.

A GREAT READ FOR CHILDRENWelcome to the Great Barrier ReefSet in the South Pacific Ocean on Australias Great Barrier Reef; follow the thrilling story of Wave, a young female green turtle, from her birth on a warm tropical night through her perilous adventures with boyfriend, Web. Together they face many natural and man-made hazards including sharks, storms and pollution.Not only is the book educational, teaching about the full life cycle of turtles, but each page is beautifully illustrated with exquisite attention to detail and a text to delight and amuse children and adults alike.10% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to GREENPEACE

By his fifteenth birthday, Danny McAlister in on the run. He has escaped from a draconian boarding school after seriously injuring the principal. His flight takes him through Northern Queensland to the New Guinea Highlands where he searches for his father, lost while fighting the Japanese on the Kokoda Track.Thrown into an unforgiving adult world he grows up fast and becomes embroiled in union wars amongst cane cutters, joins the crew of prawn trawler in the Gulf of Carpentaria, gets mixed up with smugglers and New Guinea's burgeoning aviation industry.He teams up with Mad Monty, an eccentric Afro-American pilot and Angela, the stunning teenage daughter of an English missionary.They must endure a series of harrowing adventures as they journey through New Guinea's Central Highlands and the islands in the Bismarck Sea where they face their final challenge against vicious Filipino pirates and discover the final secret of Danny's missing father.

Only months after escaping from Frenchy Duval's band of cut throat pirates (McAlister's Way), Danny McAlister and Angela Holyman are once again thrown into a thrilling, helter-skelter adventure in their tropical, South-Sea paradise. Following only the flimsiest clues they embark on a perilous treasure hunt in a desperate struggle against old enemies in order to save the lives of new friends. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE MCALISTER SERIES: "Waiting for the sequel" "McAlister's Spark is a fast paced, action riddled, amazing read you will struggle to put down" "A great action read for teenagers and great graphics......a great literary effort".

In an instant the developed world is destroyed and plunged into anarchy. Can Zach McAlister, Karen Davenport and Mike Farrow survive as they're thrust into a feral and deadly new order? Not only must they come to terms with their Stone Age environment and the use of only Medieval technology, but also face the terror of marauding tribal gangs, whose only method of survival is violence and conquest. Will they be able to forge a future themselves and their descendants? The question can only be answered through their courage, determination and friendship. But, is that enough? --------------------- Set in Australia, this is the second in the McAlister series and has "On the Beach" meeting "Mad Max". A thrilling and entertaining read for especially teenagers and young adults. Action and adventure abounds which keeps you turning the pages.

The 4th book in the McAlister Line: After recovering from injuries suffered at Dien Bien Phu, Danny is straight back into action in Saigon via Taipei.The 17th Parallel has just been created with the communists to the North. But South Vietnam is awash spies and agents from the CIA, MI6 and other secret service types from the West, but especially Russian, Chinese and with North Vietnamese infiltrators, all vying to fill the, soon to be, power vacuum currently being created by the French who are starting to pull out of Indochina.Still flying for CAT airlines, commonly referred to as the most shot-at airline in the world, Monty and Angela join him as they plunge headlong into another non-stop, breathtaking odyssey which spreads across five continents, landing in one desperate scrape after another. Finally all three make heart-breaking decisions which ultimately define their true allegiance.