A winter book: selected stories

A Winter BookSelected Stories by Tove Jansson_Translated from the Swedish by Kingsley Hart, Silvester Mazzarella and David McDuff.INTRODUCED BY ALI SMITH Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Janssons best loved and most famous stories.

Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writers prose, scattered with insights and home truths.

It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith.The Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Janssons first book for adults, The Sculptors Daughter (1968) plus 7 of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.

With afterwords by Philip Pullman, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Esther Freud.