From the fish hook to fiber optics, the pyramids to the postage stamp, and from gunpowder to GPS, this eclectic compendium will inform, inspire, and fascinate anyone curious to know more about the moments of genius that have shaped our lives today.
Terry Breverton Book order






- 2019
- 2019
The Tudor Cookbook
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
New paperback edition - Have you ever wondered what the Tudors ate? Explore within what the Tudors ate and drank in 250 authentic recipes.
- 2018
The writing of this book became a detective story. It began as a straightforward modernised transcription of a condemned murderer's confession, but contradictions had to be explored. Along the way, we become acquainted with the rogue John Lilly, Owen's adversary then accomplice, whom Owen killed to escape a hue and cry on Lilly's horse.
- 2018
A Gross of Pirates
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
From anti-slavery heroes and privateers to evil murderers, from Viking longships to Somali raiders today, the 1000-year roll call of the pirates.
- 2018
We discover that Wales gave us the most notorious pirate in Elizabethan times, John Callice of Tintern; Admiral Sir Henry Morgan, the greatest privateer of all time a century later; and the most successful pirate in history, Black Bart Roberts of Casnewydd Bach, whose death ended 'the Golden Age of Piracy'.
- 2017
100 Greatest Welshmen
- 490 pages
- 18 hours of reading
A new edition of a celebration of the world-wide contribution of one hundred Welsh men and women in fields of literature and the arts, politics and religion, philosophy and industry, pioneering and education, sport and entertainment. The original publication was published in 2001.
- 2017
Owen Tudor
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
New paperback edition - The first-ever biography of the founding father of the Tudor dynasty, a Welsh commoner who secretly married Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V.
- 2016
The Tudor Cookbook: From Gilded Peacock to Calves' Feet Pie
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Featuring over 400 authentic recipes from historical manuals, this book covers starters, mains, desserts, and drinks. Each recipe has been tested, except for those involving illegal swan dishes. Additionally, it offers measurement guidance and includes more than 40 period illustrations, enhancing the experience of cooking from the past.
- 2016
Henry VII
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
The life of the king of England who defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth and founded the glittering Tudor royal dynasty.
- 2015
Richard III
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Has history gone full circle? Was Richard III really as evil as Shakespeare would have us believe?