Home and Family
The homes we make with our families are the bedrock of our lives, and our domestic arrangements are perhaps the greatest force shaping our lives. There are some fascinating books on the topic, such as Julie Myerson's investigation of the families who'd lived in her house in previous decades, Jackie Kay's memoir of adoption and tracking down her Nigerian father, and many more.
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Edmund De Waal A memoir that traces the network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. It tells the story of a unique collection which passed from hand to... | Jackie Kay Jackie Kay's compassionate, life-affirming and extraordinarily moving memoir |
Dan Cruickshank Spanning the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of South Wraxall, the classical rigour of Kinross in Scotland, the majesty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton... | Bill Bryson What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal... |
Alex Haley Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, the author discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. This title... | Nick Barratt From the makers of the award-winning BBC series and Dr Nick Barratt, the UK's leading authority on family history, comes the definitive, must-have guide to researching your family's roots and... |
Michael Ondaatje The much-loved, critically-acclaimed memoir from the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient | Blake Morrison Presents a portrait of family life, father-son relationships and bereavement. |
John Burnside Tells the story of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by drink they could take and the pain they could... | John Lanchester Pieces together the author's family's past and uncovers their secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mother's time as a nun. |
Charlotte Moore Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where the author grew up, and where she lives. It's been in the family since her ancestor Milicent Ludlow, young, single... Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £10.99 | £7.69 | 30% |  Despatched in 1 business day. |   Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £10.99 | £9.34 | 15% |  Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
| Adam Nicolson A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. |
Christopher Simon Sykes The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years. | Robert Sackville-West Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles... Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £10.99 | £7.69 | 30% | Despatched in 1 business day. | Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £10.99 | £9.34 | 15% | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
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Blake Morrison "And When Did You Last See Your Father?" is about a son's search to discover the truth about the remarkable Kerry girl who qualified as a doctor in Dublin in... | Kate Adie Uncovers the stories of just such children - without mother or father, any knowledge of who they might be, or even a name to call their own. From various perspectives... |