Jonathan Buckley shortlisted for BBC National Short Story Award
Sort of Books congratulate Jonathan Buckley on his short story Briar Road being shortlisted for the prestigious BBC National Short Story Award 2015. Chair of the judging panel, Allan Little, described...
View ArticleSort of authors donate best loved titles to help Syrian refugee and migrant...
Kathleen Jamie, Chris Stewart and Tove Jansson (via her family estate) are to donate thousands of copies of their best loved titles to the Waterstones Syrian migrant crisis appeal. The books will...
View ArticleJonathan Buckley wins the BBC National Short Story Award
Jonathan Buckley has won the BBC national short story award with sublimely subtle and engaging, Briar Road. Read more at the Guardian Jonathan Buckley discusses Briar Road with John Wilson
View ArticleSimon Bill and Matthew Collings discuss Artist in Residence at launch event...
Artist/author Simon Bill launches his new title, Artist in Residence, at Libreria‘s hip new venue in Hoxton in discussion with art critic, author and broadcaster Matthew Collings. Can an author...
View ArticleArtist in Residence appears at London artworld’s ‘most exuberant event’
Simon Bill will be signing copies of his latest debut, ‘Artist in Residence’ at the London Art Car Boot Fair in Hoxton on Sunday 12th June, from 12midday. A must-read for all art fans....
View ArticleCatch Simon Bill discussing art and neurosceince with Matthew Collings on You...
Filmed live at London’s Vout-O-Reenees, ‘the club for the surrealistically distinguished’, Sort of author/artist, Simon Bill discusses the finer points of Art and the Brain with art critic, Matthew...
View ArticleKathleen Jamie wins 2016 Saltire Society Book of the Year
Kathleen Jamie’s ‘visionary and profound’ poetry collection The Bonniest Companie wins the Scottish Book of the Year http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-38090385
View ArticleAdventures in Moominland arrives at The Southbank
Climb into and get lost inside the eccentric world of Moominland this winter as The Southbank Centre explores the internationally renowned Moomin stories through the life of their author, Tove Jansson....
View ArticleSort of Books to publish Moomin Special Collectors’ hardback editions in Oct...
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...
View ArticleThe Invisible Child Oxfam edition available now. All proceeds to Oxfam!
Sort of Books are proud to be part of a unique collaboration between The Moomins, Oxfam and Waterstones, with a book to change lives, The Invisible Child. This collectable edition contains two of Tove...
View ArticleTove Jansson Dulwich exhibition closes with a deeply privileged preview…
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, followed by an advance reading of a selection...
View ArticleEncircling Trilogy placed alongside Proust and Ferrante by LA Review of Books
Identity as Irreconcilable Collage in Carl Frode Tiller’s Epic “Encircling” Trilogy By Katharine Coldiron LA Review of Books: 1st April 2018Read full review here “when I read Elena Ferrante’s...
View Article“A scintillating display of literary flair.” The Sunday Times reviews The...
A smart, witty novel embraces love, loss and a man’s obsession with his dead lover Review by Peter Kemp Jonathan Buckley is a novelist of unusual excellence, unusual not only because of his...
View ArticleTove ’s dedication ‘To some father’ in Moominpappa at Sea
The perfect Father’s Day gift. Tove dedicated her penultimate Moomin novel, Moominpappa at Sea, ‘to some father’. And it’s a book suffused with sympathy for complex, restless and creative fathers, such...
View ArticleRead Lore Segal profile in FT Best of weekend long reads
‘I’m not surprised by anti-Semitism when it rises again’ The acclaimed novelist Lore Segal on being a Kindertransport survivor, saving her parents and getting old Neil Munshi FT.Com/Magazine 16/17 June...
View Article“An example of how things could be in a more generous world” Lore Segal’s...
Oliver Bullough in The Observer praises Other People’s Houses, a book written 54 years ago, for its urgent relevance. Lore Segal arrived in Britain at age 10yrs on the first of the Kindertransports,...
View ArticleHappy Midsummer!
What better way to celebrate that with this stunning Special Collector’s Edition of Moominsummer Madness – a summer adventure full of madness, mayhem and floating teacups. Row up! Row up! to all good...
View ArticleListen to Bill Nighy reading The Invisible Child.
The Guardian have just broadcast a special reading by Bill Nighy of our Moomin title for Oxfam, The Invisible Child, a book that has changed lives. It’s a very rare treat. See Moomin and Oxfam’sREAD MORE
View ArticleActor/director Samuel West on Tove Jansson’s most Theatrical Title
“This beautiful new edition puts Jansson’s comedy of errors where it belongs: centre stage.” Actor/Director Samuel West on the theatrical imagination behind Tove Jansson’s glorious midsummer title 23rd...
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