Family History, Tracing Ancestors

On a quest to understand why her great-grandfather, Mohanlal, set sail for South Africa from pre-Independent India, Amrita Shah's wonderfully engag...

A journal that is really more of a conversation than anything else, the Mom & Me journal is for mother-child duos looking to get to know each o...

After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she travelled back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Elisa Brodinsky Mill...

After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she traveled back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Elisa Brodinsky Mille...

Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground ca...

Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground ca...

Sport, in its many forms, is an important part of British heritage and our family histories are littered with amateur and professional sporting ref...

The astonishing, inventive debut novel, for readers of Daisy Johnson and Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch A single mothe...

'I cannot remember the last time I read a book so immediately absorbing and affecting. Michael Palin has never been better – which is, of course, s...

'Oh, what lives they both led!' Spectator 'Enriched by the correspondence between the twins – for, ultimately, the great love story is theirs alon...

Every surname has its own story to tell, and a surname study is a natural complement to family history research. The study of surnames has been rev...

At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of...

'Deeply moving, wonderfully written… A study of grief and remorse.' The Times   'He just knocked, that was all, knocked at the front door and wai...

'Engrossing' Daniel Beer, Guardian'A beautiful book... incisive, radiant' Olivia Laing'Illuminating, dramatic... majestic writing' Spectator'Enthra...

How do family historians know they are producing or receiving trustworthy results? This official manual from the Board of Certification for Genealo...

How do family historians know they are producing or receiving trustworthy results? This official manual from the Board of Certification for Genealo...

‘Oh my goodness – another girl Mrs Swain!’ Clara’s normal iron composure broke and she screamed, ‘No! That’s not the bloody deal!’And that is how m...

The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life f...

The true story of a foundling. 'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the development of child p...

______________________'Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling ... The pace leaves you breathless' - Kate Saunders, The Times'Elegant and seductive' ...

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 moving, funny and beautifully written memoir by musician, DJ and writer Ben Watt which carefully chronicles his parents' li...

Discover all the details you never knew about your mother’s life with this beautiful keepsake journal filled with over 100 prompts.  A Mother’s Lif...

'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidd...

Record and preserve your grandmother’s life story for future generations with this beautiful keepsake journal with over 100 prompts to guide her me...

Your grandfather’s life story is like no other. This beautiful keepsake journal helps him to preserve it for future generations. With over 100 prom...

Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize'Part detective story, part Dickensian saga, part labour history. A thrilling and unnerving read' Obs...

‘One of the non-fiction books of the year.’ Andrew O’ Hagan A powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the worl...

From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. ...