Emma Williams arrived in Jerusalem with her three children in August 2000 to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later the second Palestinian Intifada erupted. This memoir contributes to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and is an account of the humanity and hypocrisy at the heart of it.

'Agnes Humbert bears devastating witness to her time An insider's account of the germination of the French Resistance' William Boyd

Your surname can tell you a lot about your ancestors. Not all names are what they at first sight seem to be: if your name is Farmer, then an ancestor was a tax-collector; if it is Alabaster, then you are descended from a crossbowman. This work includes about 1500 surnames, and if your name is not amongst them then probably a very similar one is.

The coastline of Victorian and Edwardian Britain provided beauty, entertainment and a venue for most people's holidays. But it was also a thriving centre of industry - shipbuilding and fishing. This book travels around Britain's coast - clockwise from London - looking at the industries that could be found at many of the cities and towns en route.

Offers an illustrated history of the British wheeled baby carrier, from the eighteenth century to the end of the classic pram era. This book details the technological changes that affected pram design, and the rise in popularity of the pram.

Looks at all the practical ways in which animals were essential to the war effort, but is equally interested in their roles as companions, mascots and morale boosters - on land, in the air and at sea.

This book provides a moving insight into the misery of the famine and the nightmare of mass evictions that followed.

This concise but authoritative story of RMS Titanic, the most famous ship of all time, is packed with fascinating facts.

Brian Barton's incisive commentary explains the context of the trials and the motivations of the leaders, providing an invaluable insight into what went on behind closed doors at a defining moment in Irish history.

They were undoubtedly pillagers, raiders and terrifying warriors, but they were also great pioneers, artists and traders - a dynamic people, whose skill and daring in their exploration of the world has left an indelible impression a thousand years on.