Kathleen Jamie’s ‘My Life in Writing’
The Guardian has selected Kathleen Jamie as their featured author for ‘My Life in Writing’ on Easter Saturday – and The Observer will be serialising her new book, Sightlines, the following day. She...
View ArticlePaddle on the road
Jasper Winn is on the road again, talking about his book, Paddle, about kayaking around Ireland in the worst summer in living memory (see below for a nice video clip of him meeting a shark).READ MORE
View ArticleSightlines ‘a work of quiet genius’
The first reviews are in for Kathleen Jamie’s new book, Sightlines – and they surpass even the enthusiasm for her previous book, Findings. Here is a selection: The Literary Review: Diana Athill “A...
View ArticleFirst ever Moomins app launched
The first ever Moomins app has been launched by Sort Of Books, in association with Finnish developers, Spinfy. The app is a beautifully simple adaptation of Tove Jansson’s original picture book, The...
View ArticleMOOMIN MIDSUMMER CELEBRATION!
To celebrate Midsummer’s Day we are offering the very first Moomin app at half price, Only for one day – June 20th 2012. ‘Like’ and post a review on the MoominBooks Facebook site and youREAD MORE
View ArticleArt in Nature launched with Daunt Books window display
The publication this week of a brand new Tove Jansson collection, Art in Nature, has been marked by two beautiful window displays at Daunt Books Marylebone High Street and Hampstead Heath. Sort of...
View ArticleFirst ever Moomin book on sale in UK!
For the first time, UK fans can buy the original Moomin story; The Moomins and Great Flood, in a stunning deluxe edition. See how Moomintroll and Moominmamma evolve from tiny long-snouted creatures to...
View ArticleSightlines chosen as a Guardian Book of the Year
Diana Athill wrote: “Kathleen Jamie’s Sightlines, a collection of brilliant and enticing essays about natural phenomena, tingles with life. John Berger called her a ‘sorceress’, and so she is.” Read...
View ArticleTove Jansson documentary screens on BBC Four
A new documentary, Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson, directed by Eleanor Yule, was broadcast on BBC Four on Boxing Day. The film spanned the life of Tove Jansson, showing how her parents...
View ArticleKathleen Jamie wins Costa Poetry Prize 2012
Congratulations to Kathleen Jamie, who has just won the Poetry Costa 2012 for The Overhaul, described by the Costa judges as ‘the collection that will convert you to poetry’. We wish it all luck...
View ArticleKathleen Jamie shortlisted twice for Scotland’s largest literary prize
Kathleen Jamie has been shortlisted in two categories: non-fiction with Sightlines (Sort of Books) and poetry with The Overhaul (Picador) for the 2013 Scottish Investment Trust Book Awards. Awards to...
View ArticleSightlines by Kathleen Jamie is shortlisted for the 2013 Dolman Travel Book...
Winner to be announced at Hatchard’s Bookshop London on 24th September.
View ArticleSightlines is joint winner of the Dolman Travel Award
For the first time the £2,500 prize, organised by the Authors’ Club and named after a club member, the Rev Dr William Dolman, had been split between two titles: Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie and TheREAD...
View ArticleNostalgia is a Sunday Times Book of the Year
From Man Booker contenders to magical short-story colelctions, Sunday Times chief fiction reviewer Peter Kemp picked the writers who had gripped him most in 2013. He writes… Buckley is the author of...
View ArticleSort of Exclusive: Q&A with Boel Westin about working with Tove Jansson
This biography seems a labour of love, meticulously researched and carefully composed. Can you tell us what drew you to Tove Jansson as a subject and how you went about your research? The MoominREAD...
View ArticleNostalgia Guardian Best Book of 2013 as recommended by readers
“My book of the year is Jonathan Buckley’s breathtakingly clever novel, Nostalgia. Set in a small Tuscan town it puts before us not only the expatriate protagonists but also the town itself, its...
View ArticleSightlines wins highly prestigious JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL 2014
Congratulations to Kathleen Jamie who joins the esteemed ranks of John Burroughs medalists, an award for nature writing presented at the American Museum of Natural History NYC. Past medallists include...
View ArticleGrand Budapest Hotel was inspired by The Post Office Girl
Wes Anderson admits to having ‘stolen elements’ from The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig for the creation of his star-studded, The Grand Budapest Hotel. Certainly the glamourous extravagance of his...
View ArticleTove Jansson to appear on €2 coin
Tove Jansson is being honoured with a commemorative €2 coin to mark the centenary of her birth. This news was hailed in a Guardian editorial which reminded us that Jansson is ‘a poet of solitude and of...
View ArticleKathleen Jamie will be appearing at the London Review Bookshop on the 10th...
A brilliant opportunity to hear Kathleen Jamie reading from and discussing her work. Join us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL. Tickets can be booked at the London Review Bookshop and online at this...
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