The social and emotional needs of children have become increasingly important to educators in recent years, as the impact they have on improving behaviour and promoting inclusion has become evident.Written in an accessible style for busy practitioners, this book gives advice on creating an emotionally and socially ′healthy′ school.The book:- shows why schools should promote emotional and social development- includes practical ideas & activities for those wor...

Hong Kong, 1980.A British police officer minutes away from being arrested by colleagues for sex crimes is found dead in his locked bedroom. There are multiple wounds to his chest; his used service revolver by his side. There's only one possible conclusion: suicide.Yet a painstaking reinvestigation of this alleged suicide uncovers a different story: one involving a secret paedophile ring servicing the city's most powerful men, high-level cover-ups, international geopolitics ...

This book will enable and assist teachers responsible for organizing and delivering Sex and Relationships Education. It draws together the best available practice to support teachers in developing policy and classroom practice. It begins by looking at general principles and then focuses on primary, secondary and special schools as well as pupil referral units. These chapters will provide a toolkit of ideas and approaches that teachers can use in the classroom.Included are practical...

Finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, winner of the Canadian Book Club Award, and recipient of the Word Guild Award for Best Fiction, Monday Rent Boy is an unforgettable literary novel about friendship, mentorship, the consequences of being a bystander, and the courage it takes to finally tell the truth.You never forget the friend who taught you who you were—or the day you failed him.Arthur Barnes and Ernie ...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARDS“Powerful and unrelenting prose.... I loved this book.” —Reema Patel, author of Such Big DreamsGorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland—told in the voices of four distinct narrators.**Nearly twenty years after the death of her infant daughter, Rosy is still reeling from all that she's lost. Despe...

WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must ...

Winner of the Prix GoncourtA powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fatePaced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud’s tense and haunting novel follows one woman’s quest to comprehend the motorcycle accident that took the life of her partner Claude at age 41.The narrator of Live Fast recounts the chai...

**ONE OF NPR’s “BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024"The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement."—The Financial Times“Has a commercial-fiction spring in its step.… Vardiashvili also has captured the winking, world-weary humor and magic-realist touches that mark a lot of literature from Europe’s war-torn corners.” —Los Angeles Tim...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE • Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award • One of The Guardian’s Best Books of the Summer and Best Fiction of 2024 • One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of 2024 • Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New York TimesFrom the award-winning writer of Homesickness and Young Skins, a darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and small-town ...

**A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family’s troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guilt—from the Booker Prize–longlisted author of An Island.“Extraordinary . . . unputdownable.”—Roddy DoyleLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Guardian, Irish Times, CrimeReads**Cape Town, 2028. The land cracks from a years-long drought, the nearby mountain...

“It is a privilege to read Crystal Hana Kim’s fiction, which both edifies and enlightens.” —Min Jin LeeA hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center—a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me.In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a yo...

Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork ...