Crux: 37 books
Murder in the Garden of God
A True Story of Renaissance Ambition, Betrayal and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
On April 17, 1581, shots ring out in a Roman garden and a young man falls dead in an ambush. Within days, a powerful baron weds the lovely widow. Everyone knows the baron ordered the hit. But how much did the victim’s wife know? Vittoria Accoramboni, the most beautiful girl in Rome, chafed under...
The German Opposition to Hitler
The Resistance, the Underground, and Assassination Plots (1938-1945)
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Between 1933 and 1945, more than 500,000 German citizens resisted the Nazi government. Many were imprisoned for political crimes which included both active attempts to remove Hitler from office and passive attempts to oppose the Nazi regime. Resistance was found among university students, churches...
The Winning of the Carbon War
Power and Politics on the Front Lines of Climate and Clean Energy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
“A brilliant page turner, alternately daringly funny, coldly sobering, starkly terrifying – poetic, personal, beautiful and intensely urgent." Josh Fox, Emmy-winning film director
“Great fun to read; kind, tough, and often very funny.” Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics
“We...
Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes
The Catholic Church's 2,000 Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults by Catholic clergy burst onto the American scene in 1984. Revelations about such abuse since then have confirmed that this tragedy is not limited to the U.S. Catholic Church, nor is it a new phenomenon that grew out of so-called secularizing trends of the...
50 Reasons to Hate the French
Vive la Difference!
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
You shuddered when the U.S. Congress renamed French fries. You sighed when the French rejected the European Constitution they’d written themselves. But come on, admit it: deep down there’s something in all of us that likes to take a swipe at our Gallic friends. This ebook provides you with fifty...
The Budapest House
A Life Re-Discovered
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Traumatised by the loss of half her family in Auschwitz, a Hungarian returns to Budapest to retrace her roots. She discovers a dramatic personal history that enables her eventually to shed the burden of her past and move forward to a new life.
This is a true story of human beings caught up...
Education Forward
Moving Schools into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Too often, we think of school as a fixed-rail path we all have to follow: teachers teach, students learn, exams are taken, futures set. That's how it's been since the introduction of compulsory schooling in the 19th century.
But parents, teachers and corporations around the world are now voicing...
by Tom Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
1565. Their last mission on behalf of the Lord Chancellor nearly got them killed. Now back in England, former soldier Matthew Longstaff and his Italian wife, Aurélie, are living quietly in the countryside when news arrives from France; their closest friend has disappeared.
In London, fledgling...
Through the Darkness
Glimpses into the History of Western Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
The fascinating history of medicine in Europe is filled with curious, often bizarre, strange, and gruesome cures, enthusiastically espoused by physicians and other medical practitioners of the times. Repulsive and disgusting examples of ‘medications’ often dominated treatment directives and many...
by Tom Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
“Pugh’s first novel is a magnificent achievement. Let us hope he returns to enthral us with another very soon.” David Dickinson, author of the Powerscourt series
The Otiosi? As far as Mathew Longstaff knows, they’re just a group of harmless scholars with an eccentric interest in the...
Invasion
From The Armada to Hitler (1588-1945)
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Most people know that Britain was invaded by the Romans, by the Vikings and by the Normans. Many will know about the Spanish Armada, launched by Philip II in 1588 to bring Protestant England to submission. But fewer people know that Philip launched a second armada in 1596 or that invasion plans were...
The Opium Eater
A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
“Scholarly, eloquent, persuasive and entertaining” The Economist
“Scholarly and entertaining...brings its extraordinary subject back to life. All amateurs of the marvellous age in which De Quincey lived will relish it.” Michael Ratcliffe, The Times
The Opium Eater...
by Anthony Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
This is the true story of the endeavour to find, extract and adopt an infant from an ‘orphanage’ in post revolutionary Romania in the face of opposition from the most unexpected quarters. Obstacles erected by both the UK and the Romanian authorities populate the route taken by the author, who...
Afghanistan Revealed
Beyond the Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Afghanistan Revealed offers the reader an incisive view into a country that has held the world’s attention for more than a decade. Hardly a day goes by without Afghanistan making news in the media – but behind the headlines, what do we really know about this complex and enigmatic country, its...