2,750円 The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World. Starting with William Rainborowe, a prominent merchant-mariner and shipmaster, and h...

1,617円 Perfect Babies' Names is an essential resource for all parents-to-be. Taking a close look at over 3,000 names, it not only tells you each name's meaning and history, it also tells you which famous people have shared it over the years and how popular – or unpopular – it is now. With tips on how to...

2,912円 The extraordinary story of a small Jewish ghetto in a small town in Poland - and of one man's obsessive quest to discover its fate and its survivors. Since his early childhood in London, Theo Richmond had heard his relatives mention a place called Konin, the Polish Shetetl from which both his par...

2,588円 Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative true story recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary journey takes us from the brutal poverty of village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous 1930s Hong Kong and finally to the UK. Their...

3,560円 The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home ***WINNER of the The National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography* One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018'** The New York Times Critics' Top Books o...

2,588円 A couple of years ago, Martin Knight began a quest to delve into his family history. He had a head start on many amateur genealogists, as 30 years earlier he had produced a school project on the very subject. The project was based on the papers and oral history of his then elderly grandmother, El...

2,588円 When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy's great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard. Other legends ranged from ...

3,073円 The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirées and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat. But the arrival of the Naz...

0円 While watching the "Who Do You Think You Are?" TV show in February 2011 featuring country music singer Tim McGraw, I learned that his ancestor (Jost Hite) and Elvis Presley's ancestor (Johannes Valentin Bressler) made the treacherous voyage to America on the same ship named 'Fame' in 1710. It was...

647円 Isidoro Rainieri estaba perdido. No se sabía porqué este italiano, amante de su negocio y de su familia, había partido sin dejar rastro. Un día de 1912, residiendo entonces en Puerto Plata, se embarcó y no volvió jamás. Abandonó a su joven esposa e hijos pequeños separados entre Bologna y Puerto ...

331円 Details of the twenty-three men and boys of North Hinksey and Botley, Oxfordshire, who lost their lives in the two World Wars. They represent a wide range of circumstances from the trenches of the Somme to a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Also includes the seven war dead buried in South Hinksey. ...

1,054円 Oxfordshire has a proud history as an agricultural county, relying for centuries on the wool trade for its prosperity. It is also famous for the founding of Oxford University in the eleventh century and for the Morris Motors car factory established in Oxford in 1912. The county is richly endowed ...