The Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy is the only step-by-step guide to tracing your family history you will ever need. This series' expert genealogist, Nick Barratt, helps you bring to life your family''s past, no t just by helping you build your family tree but illuminating what their lives were really like.

For 2009, the BBC is planning a major ‘Poetry Season’ on BBC2 and BBC4. This landmark series on British Poetry will be the centrepiece of the season, and Penguin Classics is publishing the official anthology to tie-in with it. The anthology will include all the poems read or mentioned in the series as well as a large number of others selected to complement them. Among them are poems chosen by actress Sheila Hancock exploring human relationships and the loss of a loved one, from Yeats and Tennyson to Blake and Larkin. Comic Robert Webb has selected the modern verse that inspired him, including the love sonnets of E. E. Cummings and the wordplay of Don Paterson. Musician Cerys Matthews celebrates the rich verse of Wales, Ireland and Scotland [poets], and writer Malorie Blackman chooses the [rich variety of] poetry that spoke to her, from Psalm 23 to Roald Dahl to Benjamin Zephaniah.

Empire's Children examines how the legacy of the British Empire has impacted on modern Britain and shaped our national identity. In this major new series, six well known contributors recount their own family stories offering an extraordinary insight into the dying embers of the Empire and the effect it continues to have on Britain.

Accompanying the first major television history of this ever more influential art form, this landmark book explores the key events and the key images that have marked the development of photography. At the heart of the book is a quest to understand what makes a truly great photograph. What is it that makes a photograph by Nan Goldin or Henri Cartier-Bresson stand out among the millions of others taken by all of us every single day?

Trace your family history back to the Tudors with this exciting book. Travel back through time past the usual family tree landmark of 1837, when birth, marriage and death registration were made mandatory, to trace your ancestors back to Tudor times.

This is an accessible and modern guide to the hugely popular art of tracing your family history. It includes celebrity histories and a directory of the best current Internet resources.

The essential guide to tracing your family history. This lively book provides a great starting point from which to find the heroes and villains in your family.

The Reclaimers book is the perfect beginners guide to architectural salvage. Filled with brilliant photography, this book provides an excellent overall introduction to salavge. It also contains a handy directory of salvage yards in the UK.

Ever wanted to know how to lie without being caught, how to follow someone without being spotted and how to spot those who might be following you? This book is a guide to all things spy related written by former MI6 agent Harry Ferguson.

Not Forgotten is a revealing look behind the names on Britain's war memorials. The book uncovers how the events and people of the first world war shaped the world we live in today.