Winner of the Booker Prize 2022 | 'Brilliant…rollicking…a pleasure to read.’ The TLS

‘You just can’t fail to like Chris Stewart and the world he spreads out for you’ The Guardian

Tove Jansson’s most personal book. A homage by two artists to the island life they loved.

October 08, 2015

Jonathan Buckley wins the BBC National Short Story Award

October 08, 2015/ Furrowed

Jonathan Buckley has won the BBC national short story award with sublimely subtle and engaging, Briar Road.

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Sep 6, 2022

THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA WINS THE 2022 Booker Prize

Sep 6, 2022

Jul 31, 2020

Sort of Books chosen by Wiki as one of seven Book Publishers around the world who are Finding Fresh Voices

Jul 31, 2020

We’re so proud to be recognised by Wiki as a publisher who helps bring compelling works from talented authors to market. As they say, “The big publishing houses may have all the resources and money, but they hardly have the last word when it comes to releasing great literature to the public; the smaller, independent presses are just as worthy, and often have even more unique and interesting catalogs of titles.”

Jul 31, 2020

May 1, 2020

Listen to KATHLEEN JAMIE reading her inspiring essay Voice of The Wood from Surfacing

May 1, 2020

Jan 16, 2020

Cast for the film TOVE announced!

Jan 16, 2020

The director of the film is Zaida Bergroth, a highly acclaimed Finnish director for which this will be the fifth feature-length drama. She says that Alma Pöysti has all the right characteristics for the role of Tove Jansson. “When I searched for an actress to portray Tove Jansson, I was looking for someone who would have that right Tove-like energy, and who could credibly play a person who created something as amazing and imaginative as the Moomins. Alma Pöysti’s version of Tove combines intelligence and melacholy as well as humour and flirt in a wonderful way. I am very excited to be able to present such an incredible actress to a large audience”, Bergroth says.

Vivica Bandler is played by Krista Kosonen and Shanti Roney plays Atos Wirtanen.

Jan 16, 2020

Dec 16, 2019

Listen to Letters from Tove on BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Dec 16, 2019

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 9.45 everyday this week to hear Sarah Lamble reading extracts from Letters From Tove by Tove Jansson. Episode One introduces listeners to the young Tove Jansson, arriving as an art student in Paris and coping with the misogyny and hazing rituals meted out to novices at the eminent École des Beaux-Arts.

Dec 16, 2019

Dec 3, 2019

Letters from Tove: Casual brilliance and beauty IRISH TIMES REVIEW by Anna Carey

Dec 3, 2019

Oct 17, 2019

VOICE OF THE WOOD - an extract from SURFACING by Kathleen Jamie

Oct 17, 2019

Voice of the Wood
SO YOU’VE REALLY GONE AND DONE IT THIS TIME you are lost in the wood how did that happen? The crazed Scots pines camped all around and blaeberries beneath and bracken shrivelled because it’s October and you stand hearing nothing, the non-sound of one leaf dropping to join its siblings on the ground…

Oct 17, 2019

Oct 10, 2019

A Brilliant Q&A with Letters from Tove editors Boel Westin and Helen Svensson

Oct 10, 2019

“There is an immediacy and a presence in many of the letters that is hard for any biography to capture. The reader is drawn into a here and now which become both alive and concrete. Sometimes it’s like a diary, intimate and close to the heart, and sometimes it’s narrated like a novel, you just want to read more.”

Oct 10, 2019

Sep 17, 2019

Surfacing is Guardian Book of The Day

Sep 17, 2019

Sep 2, 2019

What remains, what surfaces, is what preoccupies us as we, and the world, sense loss – of glaciers, habitations, ancient knowledge: Read Kathleen Jamie interviewed by The Tablet

Sep 2, 2019

Sep 1, 2019

Catch Kathleen Jamie at LRB Bookshop on 27th September

Sep 1, 2019

Read an extract from Surfacing, the luminous new title by Kathleen Jamie in Saturday’s Telegraph

Sep 1, 2019

Aug 3, 2019

Kathleen Jamie discusses her latest book Surfacing

Aug 3, 2019

Edinburgh Festival: Kathleen Jamie Event SOLD OUT

Aug 3, 2019

Jun 20, 2019

“I’ve fallen madly in love with a woman” – Queer themes in Tove Jansson’s life and work, part 1

Jun 20, 2019

Jun 13, 2019

New feature drama film about Tove Jansson to premiere in 2020

Jun 13, 2019

May 7, 2019

Creating the Moominvalley storylines. Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler share their insights.

May 7, 2019

May 3, 2019

Alexander Baron event planned for 2pm on the 9th June

May 3, 2019

Jun 28, 2018

Listen to Bill Nighy reading The Invisible Child.

Jun 28, 2018

Jun 23, 2018

Actor/director Samuel West on Tove Jansson’s most Theatrical Title

Jun 23, 2018

Jun 20, 2018

Happy Midsummer!

Jun 20, 2018

“An example of how things could be in a more generous world” Lore Segal’s Other People’s Houses is “an antidote to 2018”

Jun 20, 2018

Jun 17, 2018

Read Lore Segal profile in FT Best of weekend long reads

Jun 17, 2018

Jun 14, 2018

Tove ’s dedication ‘To some father’ in Moominpappa at Sea

Jun 14, 2018

May 6, 2018

“A scintillating display of literary flair.” The Sunday Times reviews The Great Concert of the Night

May 6, 2018

Apr 3, 2018

Encircling Trilogy placed alongside Proust and Ferrante by LA Review of Books

Apr 3, 2018

Jan 27, 2018

Tove Jansson Dulwich exhibition closes with a deeply privileged preview...

Jan 27, 2018

Two mesmerising archive films taken by Tuulikki Pietilä of Tove and ‘Tuuti’ on their summer island, and travelling in Europe were shown by Club des Femmes . . .

Jan 27, 2018

Sep 26, 2017

The Invisible Child Oxfam edition available now. All proceeds to Oxfam!

Sep 26, 2017

Mar 22, 2017

Sort of Books to publish Moomin Special Collectors’ hardback editions in Oct 2017

Mar 22, 2017

Our amazing news is that we will be launching Special Collectors’ Editions of the original Moomin novels in October 2017: the first four titles to coincide with the opening of the Tove Jansson retrospective at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Four further titles will follow in Spring and Winter 2018.

Mar 22, 2017

Dec 15, 2016

Adventures in Moominland arrives at The Southbank

Dec 15, 2016

Nov 24, 2016

Kathleen Jamie wins 2016 Saltire Society Book of the Year

Nov 24, 2016