Recollect Reading

Take a deep breath and dive in. Oceans of Curiosity draws on memories of the sea, beach days, fishing trips, ferry rides and coastal towns that spark memory and storytelling, while keeping attention anchored through soothing visuals and hands-on play. Games and puzzles support sequencing, concent...

Creative thinking counts as brain exercise too. Art & Imagination keeps minds active through visual recognition, strategy and pattern-based play, especially helpful when words don't come easily. Games and puzzles encourage planning, matching and flexible thinking, while books spark ideas and conv...

For four decades, this guide has been the leading reference for those who take care of people with dementia. This edition highlights the significant advances in diagnostic testing, treatment, and research that have occurred in recent years, also offering useful takeaway messages and informed by t...

Fairy tales are as old as language itself.Long, long ago, storytellers all around the world told tales of wonder both to enchant and entertain us, and also to teach us that – if we are good and kind and courageous enough – we can change the world for the better.For this is what fairy tales do. Th...

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convince...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic' Guardian 'Some of the most beautiful writing I've experienced in my lifetime' Oprah Winfrey READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS: 'Read it slowly. Let it wreck you. Then read it ag...

One summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a lif...

How prepared are you for your own death? Do your loved ones know your wishes? Do you know theirs? What might a 'good death' look like for you? After learning that her beloved father Bob's death was rapidly approaching, Lisa Twigg knew what she had to do: give him the best death possible. The fami...

After learning that her beloved father Bob's death was rapidly approaching, Lisa Twigg knew what she had to do: give him the best death possible. The family took the unconventional step of taking Bob out of care and, in late 2023, he died from dementia at home. It was one of the most moving thing...

Rose is in her eighties and has dementia, but she's not done with life just yet. Alternately sharp as a tack and spectacularly forgetful, she spends her days roaming the corridors of the aged-care facility, ruminating on the staff and residents and enduring visits from her emotionally distant chi...