Crux: 37 books

Julius II was one of the most remarkable and colourful men ever to sit on the papal throne. His vigour, determination, ambition, passion for action and notorious temper were more suited to the soldier he would probably have preferred to be, than to the ecclesiastical potentate he became under the...

Walter Smithers, 69, is a retired engineer and widower. He collects tiny morsels from London’s pavements, parks and gutters and exhibits them at home. Finds include a grape pip, a ball bearing and the wing of a flying ant.  When his irritating son, troubled daughter-in-law and much...

This is the health book we have all been waiting for. Easy-to-understand, timely and transformational, it gives you the keys to gain personal power over your health and shows you how you can live a disease-free life. In The Disease-Free Revolution you are presented with research-based facts...

Daredevil Dads chronicles the lives of a group of men who do some of the most dangerous jobs on (and off) the planet – and in some instances even below the earth's surface. Every day they walk out the door, they know it might be their last as they push themselves to the edge of their limits. The...

Why do we:     •    Christen ships and sailing vessels or refer to them as ‘she’?     •    Avoid the number thirteen, breaking mirrors or walking under ladders?     •    Use...

Disillusioned with dating? Tired of searching for "the one"? Is your Netflix and Chill, all Netflix, no Chill? Then get out of your pjs, put down the sharing bag and despair no more, Tom, Dick & Happily Ever After is the remedy you've been looking for. This no-nonsense...

Roald Amundsen is usually known simply as the man who beat Captain Scott in the race to the South Pole in 1911. But this one-dimensional picture ignores the complexity of the man and the many problems – financial, personal and psychological – that he had to overcome to emerge as the world's premier...

MAKING A MARK was written in order to answer the author’s teenage grandson’s questions about art (What is Cubism?  Who is Cézanne?). It starts with the first known cave paintings, and progresses through the great artistic periods and movements in the western world until the 21st century....

Mystery in History A Childhood Friend. An Overbearing Father. A Worldly Bishop. Argolicus unravels the threads. In ancient Italy where religion and politics mesh, patrician Argolicus can't resist when his friend is murdered. When his childhood friend is brutally murdered,...