Terry Breverton

Terry Breverton
Terry Breverton with two of his published books,
Born	1946
Nationality	Welsh
Occupation	Author
Known for	Books on Wales

Terry D. Breverton (born 1946) is a British former businessman and academic who has written many non-fiction books on subjects, many related to Wales.

Life

Terry Breverton was born in Birmingham in 1946 to Welsh parents and was brought up in Wales..He studied in England at the universities of Manchester and Lancaster. He worked for many years in international business and consultancy. He was a senior management consultant, mainly in manufacturing, and an international marketing director. He has worked in Iran, Saudi Arabia and across Europe. Breverton then became an academic specialising in international business management, and lectured in Milan, Bologna and Wales. He has been a senior lecturer at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff [5], a visiting Professor in Milan and Reggio Emilia, and is a Certified Management Consultant. He holds elected Fellowships of the _Institute of Consulting_ (FIC), The Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and the _Chartered Institute of Marketing_ (FCIM). Breverton was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) on the basis of his published works. He was awarded the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship [6] award of the _University of Indiana_ in 2003, has twice been a guest speaker at the North American Festival of Wales [7] (NAFOW) at Vancouver in 2003 and Washington in 2007, and gave the prestigious Bemis Lecture [8] at Lincoln, Massachusetts in 2008. [9]

Breverton has said that the skills he developed in research and writing as a management consultant transferred easily into writing history books. [10] In 2000 Breverton founded Glyndŵr Publishing and WalesBooks.com. [11] Glyndŵr Publishing published books by Breverton and other authors who were unable to get their non-fiction work on Wales accepted by other publishers. [4] Since 2008 he has been a full-time writer and editor, mainly writing for Apple, Quercus and Amberley. [11] He has also presented documentaries on the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. [12] Breverton is interested in reviving interest in Welsh culture and history, which has been the main focus of many of his books. [2] The development of Welsh saints' feast days and pilgrims' trails is an ongoing process. He has said, "The Welsh are treated as second-class citizens, and live in a country that is one of the most economically backward in Europe. They are rapidly becoming a minority in their own country."[3] His books have been translated into Chinese (Simplified and Complex), Japanese, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, German and Russian. They include the first biographies of Jasper Tudor and Owain Tudor (Henry VII's uncle and his grandfather). Of Jasper Tudor - Dynasty Maker, 'the first biography of the real "kingmaker" of British History', the celebrated Margaret Attwood wrote: 'Breverton for the first time makes sense of the Wars of the Roses for me.'

His An A to Z of Wales and the Welsh was reviewed as "the first Welsh encyclopaedia" and he translated from mediaeval Welsh of The Physicians of Myddfai - Cures and Remedies of the Medieval World. Of his The Book of Welsh Saints, Rowan Williams when Archbishop of Canterbury wrote: '... this book is a really extraordinary achievement: a compilation of tradition, topography and literary detective work that can have few rivals. I have enjoyed browsing it immensely, and have picked up all sorts of new lines to follow up'. Meic Stephens wrote of Breverton's 100 Great Welshmen and 100 Great Welsh Women in the Western Mail Magazine on 16 March 2002, "These are not necessarily books that you want to read from cover to cover, but to browse in ... Both are really extraordinary achievements by a single author whose industry and enterprise seem to show no bounds." [13] Breverton has won the Welsh Books Council 'English Book of the Month' award on five occasions. [14]

Books Released

Books released by Breverton to date:

Terry Breverton (1982) Trucks At Work, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, paperback

Terry Breverton (2000) An A-Z of Wales and The Welsh, Christopher Davies

Terry Breverton (2000) The Secret Vale of Glamorgan, Glyndŵr Publishing, illustrated paperback

Terry Breverton (2000) The Book of Welsh Saints, Glyndŵr Publishing, hardback

Terry Breverton (2001) 100 Great Welshmen, Glyndŵr Publishing, paperback

Terry Breverton (2001) 100 Great Welsh Women, Glyndŵr Publishing, paperback

Terry Breverton (2002) The Path to Inexperience, Glyndŵr Publishing, illustrated paperback

Terry Breverton (2002) The Welsh Almanac, Glyndŵr Publishing, illustrated hardback

Terry Breverton (2003) The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers, Glyndŵr Publishing

Terry Breverton (2003) Glamorgan Seascape Pathways, Glyndŵr Publishing

Terry Breverton (2004) Black Bart Roberts - The Greatest Pirate of Them All, Glyndŵr Publishing

Terry Breverton (2004) The Pirate Handbook - A Dictionary of Pirate Terms and Places, Glyndŵr Publishing

Terry Breverton (2005) Admiral Sir Henry Morgan - The Greatest Buccaneer of Them All, Glyndŵr Publishing

Terry Breverton (2006) 100 Great Welshmen (New Edition), Glyndŵr Publishing, paperback

Terry Breverton with Phil Carradice (2007) Welsh Sailors of the Second World War, Glyndŵr Publishing

Terry Breverton (2007) The First American Novel: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman by William Williams, & The Book, The Author and the Letters in The Lilly Library, Glyndŵr Publishing

Terry Breverton (2008) The Illustrated Pirate Diaries: A Remarkable Eyewitness Account of Captain Morgan and The Buccaneers, Apple/Quarto, Collins USA, large format illustrated hardback

Terry Breverton (2008) Immortal Words: History's Most Memorable Quotations and The Stories Behind Them, Quercus History/Borders, hardback

Terry Breverton (2009) Owain Glyndŵr - The Story of The Last Prince of Wales, Amberley, hardback

Terry Breverton (2009) Wales - A Historical Companion, Amberley, paperback

Terry Breverton (2010) Wales' 1000 Best Heritage Sites, Amberley, paperback

Terry Breverton (2010) Breverton's Nautical Curiosities - A Book of The Sea, Quercus/Hachette, Rowman & Littlefield USA, illustrated hardback

Terry Breverton (2011) Breverton's Phantasmagoria - A Compendium of Monsters, Myths and Legends, Quercus/Hachette, Rowman & Littlefield USA, illustrated hardback

Terry Breverton (2012) Breverton's Encyclopedia of Inventions: A Compendium of Technological Leaps, Groundbreaking Discoveries and Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed The World, Quercus/Hachette, Rowman & Littlefield (USA), illustrated hardback

Terry Breverton (2012) Immortal Last Words - History's Most Memorable Dying Remarks, Deathbed Declarations and Final Farewells, Quercus/Borders, illustrated hardback

Terry Breverton (2012) I Have A Dream - Inspiring Words And Thoughts From The World's Greatest Leaders, Quercus/Hachette, illustrated hardback

Terry Breverton (2012) The Physicians of Myddfai - Cures And Remedies of the Medieval World, Cambria Books, paperback

Terry Breverton (2012) The Welsh - The Biography, Amberley, paperback

Terry Breverton (2012) Breverton's Complete Herbal - A Book of Remarkable Plants And Their Uses - Based on Nicolas Culpeper's The English Physitian of 1652 and Compleat Herball of 1653, Quercus/Hachette, Globe Pequot (USA), illustrated hardback

Terry Breverton (2013) Richard III - The King in The Car Park: The Real Story Of The Hunchbacked King, Amberley, hardback

Terry Breverton (2014) The Journal of Penrose, Seaman - The New Robinson Crusoe, Cambria Books, paperback

Terry Breverton (2014) Everything You Wanted To Know About The Tudors But Were Afraid To Ask, Amberley, hardback

Terry Breverton (2014) Breverton's First World War Curiosities, Amberley, paperback

Terry Breverton (2015) The Tudor Kitchen: What The Tudors Ate And Drank, Amberley, hardback

Terry Breverton (2015) Jasper Tudor: Dynasty Maker, Amberley, hardback

Terry Breverton (2016) The Tudor Cookbook: From Gilded Peacock to Calves' Feet Pie, Amberley, hardback

Terry Breverton (2016) Henry VII - The Maligned Tudor King, Amberley, hardback

Terry Breverton (2017) Owen Tudor - Founding Father Of The Tudor Dynasty, Amberley, hardback

Terry Breverton (2017) 100 Greatest Welsh Women, Glyndŵr Publishing, paperback

Terry Breverton (2017) 100 Greatest Welshmen, Glyndŵr Publishing, paperback

Terry Breverton (2018) A Gross of Pirates: From Alfhild The Shield Maiden To Afweyne The Big Mouth, Amberley, hardback

Terry Breverton (2018) Welsh Pirates And Privateers, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, paperback

Terry Breverton (2018) The True Confessions Of William Owen, Smuggler, Privateer And Murderer, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, paperback

Terry Breverton (2022) The Greatest Sporting Family In History - The Blue And Black Brothers, Glyndŵr Publishing, paperback

Sources

• Annette Kristynik (21 January 2013), "An Interview with Terry Breverton Author of The Welsh, The Biography", Impressions In Ink, retrieved 2016-02-02
• Ceri Shaw (6 June 2013), "An Interview With Welsh Author, Terry Breverton", Welsh American Bookstore, retrieved 2016-02-02
• Natalie Grueninger (21 August 2014), 20 Questions with Terry Breverton, retrieved 2016-02-01
• Stephens, Meic (16 March 2002), "review: '100 Great Welshmen' and '100 Great Welsh Women'", Western Mail Magazine, retrieved 2016-02-01