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Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.'Ali SmithFollowing the widely acclaimed and b...

Special collectors' hardback editions lovingly restored to original designs'I love these editions - so beautifully produced, so solid and permanent...

A special anniversary edition with an updated chapter set 25 years on by Chris Stewart. Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our fr...

Special Collectors' Hardback Editions Lovingly Restored to Original Designs'I love these editions-so beautifully produced, so solid and permanent, ...

These ladies are perfect company' The Times'Lore Segal has the sharp analytic eye of a born writer' The New York Times Book Review'There is humour ...

Special collectors' hardback editions lovingly restored to original designs'I love these editions-so beautifully produced, so solid and permanent, ...

When a grumbling volcano causes Moominvalley to flood, the Moomins escape by boat, finding refuge on a floating theatre. Adventures abound when the...

In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstroem, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gu...

Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book PrizeUnder the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking ...

Finnish artist Tove Jansson's Moomin stories have been continually in print for more than half a century, in 35 languages. They are among Europe's ...

PETER BLEGVAD's cult comic strip LEVIATHAN ran for seven years in The Independent on Sunday review. It was memorably described by Simpsons creator ...

A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps, splutt...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil warColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war phot...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the after...

Celebrating 50 years of Tove Jansson's classic, bestselling novel'Distils the essence of summer' Robert Macfarlane'Magical, life-affirming' Elizabe...

A tale of Moomin Valley sees Toffle driven from his home by the frightening noises of the forest. Too shy, at first, to approach the many colourful...