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  • The Summer Book

    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    by Tove Jansson ...
    In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sun City

    by Tove Jansson ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    From the author of The Summer Book and creator of the Moomins, an off-beat novel about a retirement community in sunny Florida.In The Summer Book and The True Deceiver, as in her many short stories, Tove Jansson was drawn again and again to the everyday life of the aged. Not as a group apart but as full-blooded people with as many jealousies, urges, and joys as any other group. It’s no wonder that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Woman Who Borrowed Memories

    Selected Stories

    by Tove Jansson ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal, Silvester Mazzarella ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    26 “spare, slightly off-kilter stories” explore loneliness, family, aging, and creativity in this short story collection from the beloved Finnish author of The Summer Book and creator of Moomins (Kirkus Reviews).NYRB Classics Original: Now in English for the first time and presented by New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff.Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Fair Play

    by Tove Jansson ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating.Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The True Deceiver

    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    by Tove Jansson ...
    Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate.Snow has been falling on the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Fly Trap

    A Memoir

    by Fredrik Sjöberg ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    **A Nature Book of the Year (The Times (UK))“The hoverflies are only props. No, not only, but to some extent. Here and there, my story is about something else.”Amesmerizing memoir of extraordinary brilliance by an entomologist, The Fly Trap chronicles Fredrik Sjöberg’s life collecting hoverflies on a remote island in Sweden. Warm and humorous, self-deprecating and contemplative, and a major best ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ice

    by Ulla-Lena Lundberg ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    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 scattered community. In this evocative tale, Ulla-Lena Lundberg draws us into the minutiae of an austere yet purposeful life where the demands of self-sufficiency - cows to milk and sheep to graze - are ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Fly Trap

    by Fredrik Sjöberg ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    Fredrik Sjöberg'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 Sjöberg finds happiness in the little things. Millions of them, in fact. This beguiling bestseller is his unique meditation on collecting hoverflies. It is also about living on a remote Swedish island, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Notes from an Island

    by Tove Jansson, Tove Jansson ...
    Narrated by Sandi Toksvig ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 25 min

    Set against the rugged backdrop of Klovharun, a barren skerry in the Gulf of Finland, ´Notes from an Island´ invites you into the intimate world of Tove Jansson and her partner, graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, known affectionately as "Tooti." Aided by Brunstroem, an unconventional fisherman, Jansson races against time and the elements to build a cabin that would serve as their sanctuary for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Fair Play

    by Tove Jansson, Tove Jansson ...
    Narrated by Emma D'Arcy ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 23 min

    Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation. ´Fair Play´ is a poignant portrayal of the intricacies of love and work through the lens of two women, both accomplished artists, whose intimate relationship defied societal norms. Set against the backdrop of Helsinki and summers on their remote island paradise, Jansson weaves together the nuanced details of the women's creative lives, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Letters from Klara

    by Tove Jansson, Tove Jansson ...
    Narrated by Indira Varma ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 33 min

    FINALIST FOR THE 2025 AUDIO PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION AUDIE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION.In this collection comprising of thirteen short stories, Jansson masterfully crafts unsettling narratives that delve into unexpected connections, awkward encounters, and solitary momentsFrom reconnecting with childhood friends in "Party Games" to exploring the theme of ageing in "Trip to the Riviera", ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Art in Nature

    by Tove Jansson ...
    Narrated by Sophie Winkleman ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 54 min

    Immerse yourself in this riveting short story collection where art takes center stage - but not always for the better. Journey with an elderly caretaker who resolves a couple's spat over a painting, revealing the art market's complexities. Follow a draughtsman whose obsession with locomotives derails his love life, and a cartoonist who risks his sanity to fill in for a troubled colleague. Through ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus