The writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is best known as the creator of the Moomin children”s stories, which have been published in 35 languages. The Summer Book was one of ten novels she wrote for adults. It is regarded as a modern classic throughout Scandinavia.
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Tove Jansson: The True Deceiver
In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to …
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Tove Jansson: Art in Nature
An elderly caretaker at a large outdoor exhibition, called Art in Nature, finds that a couple have lingered on to bicker about the value of a picture; he has a surprising suggestion that will resolve …
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Tove Jansson: The Summer Book
Tove Jansson’s classic, bestselling novel Soon to be a major motion picture starring Glenn Close ‘Distils the essence of summer’ Robert Macfarlane ‘Magical, life-affirming’ Elizabeth Gilbert The Worl …
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Tove Jansson: Fair Play
‘So what can happen when Tove Jansson turns her attention to her own favourite subjects, love and work, in the form of this novel about two women, lifelong partners and friends? Expect something phil …
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Tove Jansson: The Listener
In her first ever story collection, Jansson revealed the clarity of vision and light philosophical touch that were to become her hallmark. From the good listener who begins to betray the secrets conf …
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Ulla-Lena Lundberg: Ice
In the summer of 1947, a young priest, Petter, his wife and baby daughter, arrive by mail boat at a tiny island. They are to take over its drafty homestead from where Petter is to minister to the sca …
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Tove Jansson: Letters from Klara
The rich seam that is Jansson’s adult prose continues with this penultimate collection of short stories, written in her seventies at the height of her Moomin fame and translated into English for the …
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Fredrik Sj berg: Fly Trap
Fredrik Sj berg’s Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries.’The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong – the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?’Fredrik Sj berg …
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Tuulikki Pietilå & Tove Jansson: Notes from an Island
For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and writ …
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