Family history, tracing ancestors

Navigate your way through your family s past Interested in family history?

Navigate your way through your family s past Interested in family history?

Originally published in 1928, Studies in Hereditary Ability studies the genealogy of great families of Britain and America and examines how their ancestors influenced their genetics and who they subsequently ended up becoming.

Originally published in 1928, Studies in Hereditary Ability studies the genealogy of great families of Britain and America and examines how their ancestors influenced their genetics and who they subsequently ended up becoming.

One man, his piano and their miraculous survival.

Annie Barrows, celebrated co-author of the global bestsellerThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, once again evokes the charm and eccentricity of a small town filled with extraordinary characters.

Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life.

It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the right people .

'It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the right people .

Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history.

An abandoned baby.

Hosted by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, Long Lost Family has been a huge ratings success for ITV1 during the Spring of 2011, winning huge audiences of between 4.

In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century.

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.

When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.

**PARTITA- 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.

Discover your roots with Family History for the Older and Wiser.

Discover your roots with Family History for the Older and Wiser.

The true story of a foundling.

NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care.

The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage.

A heartwarming and dramatic World War I saga of secrets, love and the British royal family for readers of Daisy Styles and Maisie Thomas.

Break through brick walls in your genealogical researchLearn how to use innovative methods to unearth hard-to-find ancestors.

Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!

'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologized.

THE GORGEOUSLY EVOCATIVE SCOTTISH WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH'Captivating, moving and profound' Rebecca hasn't seen her father Leo since she was six.

"e;Told through an intimate family portrait .

'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold'Powerfully told.

Patsy, what are you going to be when you grow up?

"e;Riveting .

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Tudor tells a family story like no other.

_____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.

I am foreborn of spud runts who fled the famines of Ireland in the 1830s, not a man or woman among them more than five foot two, leaving behind a life of beggarment and setting sail for what since Malory were called the Happy Isles .

When two Hungarian Jewish refugees landed by accident in Britain in the winter of 1956, they had little idea what the future would hold.

In late Victorian America few issues held the public's attention more closely than the allegedly unnatural family life of the urban poor.

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'.

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb.

Previously published as My Mam Shirley.

Previously published as My Mam Shirley.

An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm T ib n__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm T ib n takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.

Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize'A remarkable achievement.

Dictionary of Surnames is the definitive guide to the origin and meaning of British surnames by one of Britain's leading authority on names.

What price betrayal?

An accessible, user-friendly handbook for all amateur genealogists seeking their Scottish roots.

Previously published as My Mam Shirley.

Previously published as My Uncle Charlie.

Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021'Rarely has family history been so vivid' JENNY UGLOW'An extraordinarily original work' AMANDA FOREMANLike many well-to-do Georgian families, the Atkinsons' wealth was acquired at a terrible cost, through the labour and lives of enslaved Africans.