In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital, John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mother's time as a nun - with clear-eyed compassion.
**DEMON COPPERHEAD - THE NEW BARBARA KINGSOLVER NOVEL - IS AVAILABLE NOW**THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZEMother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.
The Stracheys were an exceptionally intelligent and unusual family, prominent in imperial administration, science, and feminism in the nineteenth century, and in the suffrage movement, women's education, and the bringing of new approaches to sexuality in the twentieth century.
Belmore: The Lowry-Corry Families of Castle Coole, 1646-1913 tells the fascinating story of two families who left Dumfries in the mid 17th century to settle in Fermanagh and Tyrone.
Repeticiones de aniversarios, nacimientos que coinciden con fechas de acontecimientos determinantes para una familia determinada, accidentes similares que ocurren a lo largo de varias generaciones.
Part history, part travel journal and part autobiography, 'Hotel Tiberias' is a journey of many layers and resonances, as Sebastian Hope follows the tumultuous story of his family's hotel in Palestine.
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom HollandEngland's greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight generations of kings.
The 21 censuses that have been conducted in Britain since 1801, have provided an invaluable insight into Britain's social, political and economic history over the past 200 years.
The 21 censuses that have been conducted in Britain since 1801, have provided an invaluable insight into Britain's social, political and economic history over the past 200 years.
Mit der Vertreibung der Hugenotten aus dem nordfranzösischen Pas de Calais beginnt Ende 1685 die abenteuerliche Flucht der Familie Tisse quer durch Europa.
Auf den Spuren der Ahnen – oder wie ich märchenhafte Verwandte fandVon wem habe ich das bloß ist spannend wie Karl May, komisch wie Helge Schneider, abenteuerlustig wie Reinhold Messner, gelehrt wie Kant, weise wie der Dalai Lama und lehrreich wie ein Ratgeber von Dietrich Grönemeyer.
So schließen wir Frieden mit unserer VergangenheitNatalia und Terry O'Sullivan zeigen in ihrem Ratgeber mithilfe anschaulicher Beispiele und einfacher Übungen, wie wir alte Verletzungen in unserer Familie erkennen und die Traumata unserer Vorfahren heilen können.
The incredible true story revealed by a family notebook, telling of four daughters across two centuries of turbulent history, of a passionate and ill-fated royal love affair, ending in a tragic and cruel death.
Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East.
Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, a man renowned for his eccentricity masks, practical jokes, a flock of multi-coloured doves and his homosexuality.
Discover one family's fascinating story in this beautiful, sweeping, multigenerational memoir, spanning 19th century south China to modern day Singapore'A captivating, compelling story of history, family loyalty, and personal sacrifice.
This handy book is a timeline guide to genealogical resources - what records are available and when they started - as well as an aide-memoire to significant historical events from 1066 to present; helping to put family ancestors into an historical context.
Zu den eigenen Wurzeln finden mit einer modernen Schamanin»Erst wenn man mehr über seine Vorfahren weiß und sich seiner Wurzeln bewusst ist, kann man zu sich selbst finden.
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family love Richard Ford's parents volunteered little about their early lives and he rarely asked.
Bleakhaus Charles Dickens - Esther Summerson wächst als Kind bei Miss Barbery auf, ohne zu wissen, dass diese ihre Tante ist oder wer ihre Eltern sind; sie erfährt nur, dass ihre Mutter große Schande über sich gebracht habe.
The Great War was a key event of the twentieth century and it is one of the most popular and rewarding areas for historical research-and for family historians.
