Following his writing the first biography of Owen Tudor, the grandfather of Henry VII killed at Mortimer’s Cross, Terry Breverton has totally re-written his successful books upon ‘Eminent Britons’.

‘100 Greatest Welshmen’ and ‘100 Greatest Welsh Women’ (Glyndwr Publishing) are both over 400 pages, and priced at £15.99.

The early editions were described by the Western Mail as ‘really extraordinary achievements’ and ‘fascinating’ and reviewed in the national media. The Sunday Express claimed ‘Breverton’s breadth, generosity and sheer enthusiasm about Wales are compelling’, and Ninnau (USA) reported that he was ‘an astonishing worker… perhaps the most prolific Welsh author today,’ calling his books ‘goldmines’.

In Cambria we read that the early editions were ‘a massive treasure-chest of facts and figures covering thousands of years of history, which no collector of books on Wales can overlook.’

Indeed, did you know that Wales can boast the man who made possible the Internet, the world’s first football superstar, the patron saint of computer technicians, America’s greatest pathfinder, the founder of socialism, Europe’s greatest legend, an American Public Enemy No. 1, the pioneer of cinema, the first British historian, the world’s greatest pirate, the 20th century’s most important liberal thinker, America’s greatest architect, the man who won the First World War, five of the first six presidents of the United States of America and the world’s most successful buccaneer?

Also the Britons can boast hundreds of female saints, one of whom has the oldest continuously worshipped well in Europe, as well as the female Valentine, Arthur’s queen, an unknown Queen of England, the first woman poet, the inspiration for The Bible Society, the real ‘Lady of the Lamp’, the ‘First Lady of the Confederate States of America’, the tutor to the Children of the King of Siam, the first British female physician, ‘one of the finest painters of our time and country’, the pioneering bacteriologist responsible for pasteurised milk, a leading actress for eight decades, the ‘Queen of Hollywood’, the founder of a global fabric empire, ‘the most successful British singer, a fashion icon who gave us the mini-skirt, the ‘Best Female Singer in the Last Fifty Years’, one of the 20th century’s greatest sopranos, the first folk artist to play Carnegie Hall, the Greenham Common martyr.

About the author

Terry Breverton was born in Birmingham in 1946 to Welsh parents, and brought up in Wales before attending universities in England. He worked in over 20 countries before moving to acadaemia, lecturing in Milan, Bologna and Wales, before escaping into full-time writing. A Fellow of the Institutes of Consulting and of Marketing, he has given the prestigious Bemis Lecture in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and has spoken twice at the National Festival of Wales in America and Canada. He has been awarded the Welsh Books Council’s ‘Book of the Month’ five times.