Small Rain
'A marvelous novel: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' - Colm ToibinA medical crisis brings one man close to death - and to love, art, and beauty - in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value - art, memory, poetry, music, care - are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell returns to the characters and setting of his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, in this deeply moving and elegantly written book.
Early Years Wipe-Clean Big Letters
Writing capital letters is made simple with this entertaining activity book. The letters are grouped by shape, and images are linked to each letter sound to reinforce the link between handwriting and phonics. Durable, wipe-clean pages mean childre...
Cleanness
Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he's come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student's confession recalls his own first love, a stranger's seduction devolves into paternal sadism, and a romance with a younger man opens, and heals, old wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit, and with our own fugitive selves. Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell's beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared 'an instant classic' by the New York Times Book Review. In exacting, elegant prose, Greenwell transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living writers.
Little First Stickers Funny Hats
A perfect size for little hands, this engaging sticker book will delight and entertain young children for hours while they add lots of funny hats to the friendly animal characters. With so much to spot and talk about on every page, this is also a ...
Early Years Wipe-Clean Ready for Reading
Perfect preparation for starting school, this fun book helps children develop pen control and practise essential pre-reading and reading skills taught in the Early Years Foundation Stage. The engaging activities and friendly animals help build con...
Wipe-Clean Adding
This colourful activity book is a perfect way for young children to learn how to do simple addition. Join the friendly monsters to count bugs then complete fun activities to add numbers up to 10, including playing with building blocks, and packing...
Noisy Farm
It's a peaceful morning on the farm, but things are about to get noisy! This lovely, big board book with a sound panel full of farm animal noises is perfect for sharing with small children. Little fingers will not be able to resist pressing the bu...
Wipe-Clean Doodles
Young children will have great fun doodling and drawing on the brightly illustrated scenes in this wipe-clean book. There are patterns to doodle and scenes to complete, including monsters to create and cakes to decorate. A fun and engaging way for...
First Colouring Book Christmas
Little children will enjoy bringing charming Christmas scenes to life in this fun colouring book. Scenes to colour include Santaâ??s workshop, a Christmas tree, Santa delivering presents and lots more. The backgrounds are already coloured, so children can focus on the fun parts.
First Sticker Book Animals
There are dozens of different animals to discover in this fun and lively book. Children will enjoy using the stickers to fill the exotic scenes, including a dusty desert, a grassy African plain and a lush rainforest, with animals. Includes over 15...
Wipe-clean Dot-to-dot Animals
Little children need lots of practice with pen control, This book provides plenty of opportunities for that, as they can complete the dot-to-dot puzzles as many times as they like using the special wipe-clean pen provided. Each puzzle contains ten...
Early Years Wipe-Clean Starting to Write
This fun book is the perfect introduction to writing letters and simple words, whilst practising pen control. Durable, wipe-clean pages mean children can practise again and again, and there are helpful notes and tips for grown-ups at the back plus...
What Belongs to You
Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction - A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction - A Finalist for the James Taite Black Prize for Fiction - A Finalist the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - A Finalist for the Green Carnation Prize - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the Best Books of the Year by More Than Fifty Publications, Including: The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times (selected by Dwight Garner), GQ, The Washington Post, Esquire, NPR, Slate, Vulture, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian (London), The Telegraph (London), The Evening Standard (London), The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Millions, BuzzFeed, The New Republic (Best Debuts of the Year), Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly (One of the Ten Best Books of the Year) 'Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You appeared in early 2016, and is a short
First Sticker Book Under the Sea
There is an amazing array of sea creatures to discover in this lively sticker book. With over 130 stickers including tiny sea snails, a huge humpback whale, an adorable turtle and a friendly octopus. Children will love finding a home for each crea...
1000 Animals
A beautifully illustrated reference book filled with 1000 amazing animals, from lizards and llamas to gorillas, great white sharks and much more. Every picture is labelled with its name, and there's an index of all the names at the back of the boo...
Wipe-clean Telling the Time
Children can join a host of friendly monsters and learn to tell the time in this fun, reusable book. The topic of time is introduced in a gentle and reassuring way, with clear illustrations and engaging activities. The durable, wipe-clean pages al...
Small Rain
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 'My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read' - John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' - Colm Tóibín, auth...
First Sticker Book Autumn
There are woods to explore, leaves to collect, animals to meet and pumpkins to pick in this delightfully illustrated book. Use the stickers to bring each page to life and find out all about the changes that happen in nature through this colourful ...
Starting School Activity Book
Starting School Activity Book
Early Years Wipe-Clean Alphabet
Perfect preparation for starting school, this fun book helps children develop pen control and practise essential reading and writing skills taught in the Early Years Foundation Stage. The engaging activities and friendly animals help build confide...
Wipe-clean First Letters
This fun book is a perfect way for young children to learn how to read and write. Children are encouraged to draw over the dotted lines to finish the letters in each brightly-illustrated scene. Each page is wipe-clean so that children can write on...
Wipe-Clean First Sums
This fun book is a perfect way to help young children learn how to do simple sums, allowing them to practise time and time again using the special wipe-clean pen. Children will have fun learning basic maths skills as they help the monsters with th...
Wipe-Clean Ready for Writing
This fun book is a perfect way for young children to improve their handwriting skills and pen control. Children are encouraged to draw over the dotted lines to finish the shapes and letters in each brightly-illustrated scene. Each page is wipe-cle...
Little First Stickers Seashore
Visit a sandy beach, dive into rock pools and explore the fascinating seashore in this delightful sticker book. Use the 240 stickers of interesting birds, plants, sea creatures, pebbles and shells to bring the beautifully illustrated scenes to life.
Little First Stickers Gymnastics
Bring the exciting world of gymnastics to life in scenes packed full of cartwheels, costumes, handstands, splits, rolls and jumps. Themes include classes and training sessions, learning new moves and skills, competitions and shows. Children will h...
Lift-the-Flap Nature
See how nature changes with the seasons, find out which creatures live in the garden and learn how flowers grow in this beautifully illustrated introduction to nature, with over 80 flaps to lift. There are counting and matching activities, and lot...
Wipe-Clean Mazes
Enables you to help the animal characters to find their way through 14 exciting mazes. This title includes scenes such as: a pirate ship looking for treasure, a knight rescuing a princess, and a rocket zooming through space.
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
* KIRKUS BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025* *ONE OF AV CLUB'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025* ' An] indictment of an industry that has cannily tilted the playing field in its favor. Bad Company details how clich d abstractions like 'consolidation' and 'efficiency' have given cover to real betrayals.' - The New York Times A timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers. Private equity runs our country, yet few Americans have any idea how ingrained it is in their lives. Private equity controls our hospitals, daycare centers, supermarket chains, voting machine manufacturers, local newspapers, nursing home operators, fertility clinics, and prisons. The industry even manages highways, municipal water systems, fire departments, emergency medical services, and owns a growing swath of commercial and residential real
Small Rain
A New Statesman Book of the Year'My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read' - John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' - Colm Toibin, author of Long Island'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' - Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam'Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing' - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'A fierce beautiful novel' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'Beautiful, evocative' - The TimesA medical crisis brings one man close to death - and to love, art, and beauty - in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value - art, memory, poetry, music, care - are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.'A classic, a dawn serenade, a little miracle of exigent joy. I'll be rereading it the rest of my life' - Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
Wipe-clean Alphabet
Includes wipe-clean pages and a special pen, loaded with special activities to help children learn their first ABCs. This title includes each activity that is specially designed to help children learn to read and write either by themselves or with the help of a parent or carer.