diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Revision history for hpath-filepath
 
+## 0.10.4 -- 2020-01-26
+
+* Add `takeAllParents`
+
+
 ## 0.10.2 -- 2020-01-18
 
 * Add `isSpecialDirectoryEntry`
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
 
 Support for bytestring based filepath manipulation, similar to 'filepath'.
 
-This package is part of the HPath suite, also check out [hpath](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hpath) and [hpath-io](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hpath-io).
+This package is part of the HPath suite, also check out:
+
+* [hpath](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hpath)
+* [hpath-directory](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hpath-directory)
+* [hpath-io](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hpath-io)
 
 ## Motivation
 
diff --git a/hpath-filepath.cabal b/hpath-filepath.cabal
--- a/hpath-filepath.cabal
+++ b/hpath-filepath.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                hpath-filepath
-version:             0.10.3
+version:             0.10.4
 synopsis:            ByteString based filepath manipulation
 description:         ByteString based filepath manipulation, similar to 'filepath' package. This is POSIX only.
 -- bug-reports:
diff --git a/src/System/Posix/FilePath.hs b/src/System/Posix/FilePath.hs
--- a/src/System/Posix/FilePath.hs
+++ b/src/System/Posix/FilePath.hs
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 , splitPath
 , joinPath
 , splitDirectories
+, takeAllParents
 
   -- * Trailing slash functions
 , hasTrailingPathSeparator
@@ -500,7 +501,22 @@
     splitter = filter (not . BS.null) . BS.split pathSeparator
 
 
+-- |Get all parents of a path.
+--
+-- >>> takeAllParents "/abs/def/dod"
+-- ["/abs/def","/abs","/"]
+-- >>> takeAllParents "/foo"
+-- ["/"]
+-- >>> takeAllParents "/"
+-- []
+takeAllParents :: RawFilePath -> [RawFilePath]
+takeAllParents p
+  | np == BS.singleton pathSeparator = []
+  | otherwise = takeDirectory np : takeAllParents (takeDirectory np)
+  where
+    np = normalise p
 
+
 ------------------------
 -- Trailing slash functions
 
@@ -727,7 +743,8 @@
   | otherwise    = BS.map (\x -> if x == _nul then _underscore else x) path
 
 
--- | Is a FilePath valid, i.e. could you create a file like it?
+-- | Whether the filename is a special directory entry
+-- (. and ..). Does not normalise filepaths.
 --
 -- >>> isSpecialDirectoryEntry "."
 -- True