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Driving Over Lemons
An Optimist in Andalucia
Häftad, 2020
153 kr
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Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. A man who flies to Spain, sees a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river and, with scarcely a second thought, hands over a cash deposit. And then finds he has acquired not just the farm, but the farmer, too, who has no intention of leaving. Not to …
Moomins and the Great Flood
Av Tove Jansson
Inbunden, 2024
140 kr
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In the run-up to Moomins eightieth anniversary (2025) the spotlight is on The Moomins and The Great Flood and the first glimpse it offers of Moomin Valley. Tove Jansson wrote this first ever Moomin story in 1945, in the wake of World War II, and although a children's tale, it vividly evokes the …
Summer Book
A Novel
Av Tove Jansson
Häftad, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
145 kr
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GLENN CLOSETove Jansson's classic, bestselling novel'Distils the essence of summer' Robert Macfarlane'Magical, life-affirming' Elizabeth Gilbert The Worldwide Classic about a tiny island and larger love.An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter while …
Who Will Comfort Toffle?
Av Tove Jansson
Inbunden, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
178 kr
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A tale of Moomin Valley sees Toffle driven from his home by the frightening noises of the forest. Too shy, at first, to approach the many colourful Moomin characters he passes along the way, he gains confidence by discovering a scared and lonely Miffle who needs his help. Toffle's quest to save …
Sculptor's Daughter
A Childhood Memoir
Av Tove Jansson
Häftad, 2015
141 kr
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Tove Jansson's first book for adults drew on her childhood memories to capture afresh the enchantments and fears of growing up in Helsinki in the nineteen tens and twenties. Described as both a memoir and 'a book of superb stories' by Ali Smith, her startlingly evocative prose offers a glimpse of …
Comet in Moominland
80th Anniversary Collectors' Edition
Av Tove Jansson
Inbunden, 2025
170 kr
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Tove's definitive (1968) edition lovingly restored to original designsCelebrating 80 years of Comet in Moominland with the first English translation of Tove's revised text. This is the version known and loved in the rest of the world.'I love these editions - so beautifully produced, so solid and …
Moominland Midwinter
Colour Edition
Av Tove Jansson
Inbunden, 2021
203 kr
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A Fabulous Find from the Moomin ArchivesA classic Moomin Book with COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONSAnd a beautiful FOLD-OUT PANORAMAIn 1961, at the request of her Italian publishers, Tove Jansson created a unique new edition of Moominland Midwinter, the tale in which Moomin wakes from hibernation to contend …
Ice
Häftad, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
137 kr
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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 …
On Writing and Failure
Häftad, 2023
111 kr
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'Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences' If you want to be a writer, then you'd better be ready to hurl yourself at the door. That's the message from Stephen Marche in this irresistibly droll broadside. Perseverance, in the teeth of rejection, forms the essence of a writer's …
Cairn
‘A marvel of a book’ Observer
Häftad, 2024
153 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 SALTIRE AWARDIn keeping with the concept of Cairn the 2025 reprint contains an added 'stone' - the much loved poem What the Clyde said after Cop 26'This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my …
Notes from an Island
Av Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietilå
Inbunden, 2021
162 kr
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In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to …
Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words
The Authorised Biography
Av Boel Westin
Häftad, 2018
210 kr
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The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a …
Other People's Houses
Av Lore Segal
Häftad, 2018
137 kr
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'First published 54 years ago and yet feels as timely as any book I've read this year' ObserverNine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was 10 year old Lore Segal. For …
Encircling
Book 2
Häftad, 2017
144 kr
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The island of Otterøya, a rural backwater of Norway, provides the setting for Book Two of Tiller's multi-award winning Encircling trilogy. Its singular premise continues: an enigmatic central character, David, has lost his memory and his friends and family write letters at the behest of his …
Sightlines
Häftad, 2012
128 kr
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The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing?In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn …
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat
An Optimist Afloat
Häftad, 2010
141 kr
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If you're wondering what Chris Stewart did before he and Ana moved to El Valero, their Spanish farm, here's one of the answers. He took to the sea, landing a job as skipper for the summer, sailing a Cornish Crabber around the Greek islands. It was his dream job - and there was just one tiny …
Still Talking
Av Lore Segal
Häftad, 2026
137 kr
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Following her acclaimed Ladies' Lunch novella (2023), Lore Segal continued to create stories about a fictional group of nonagenarian friends as they faced the last years, months and moments of their lives. For Lore Segal, the importance lay in 'still talking', and still writing to the very end. …
Findings
Häftad, 2005
141 kr
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It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other …
Maximum Diner
Making it Big in Uckfield
Häftad, 2004
95 kr
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Join Christopher Nye on his hilarious journey to become the self-styled Rocco Forte of the Road to Eastbourne...This is a book about a dream. The dream of running a restaurant. In Uckfield, East Sussex.Well, okay, Uckfield didn't actually appear in the dream. But for Christopher Nye it was the …
Men & Dogs
A Personal History from Bogart to Bowie
Av Juduth Watt
Häftad, 2005
129 kr
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MEN & DOGS and WOMEN & DOGS are a stunning pair of books. Each contains 80 images of people and their dogs, from Maria Callas to Robbie Williams, Churchill to Jilly Cooper. They are an amazing collection of photos, covering a century of dogs and their owners. But they are far more than picture …
Winter Book
Selected Stories
Av Tove Jansson
Häftad, 2006
150 kr
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'Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.'Ali SmithFollowing the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older …
Fair Play
Av Tove Jansson
Häftad, 1999
143 kr
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"So what can happen when Tove Jansson turns her attention to her own favourite subjects, love and work, in the form of this novel about two women, lifelong partners and friends? Expect something philosophically calm - and discreetly radical. Its publication is cause for huge celebration."(Ali …
Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets
Häftad, 2008
117 kr
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Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man's house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family's holiday photographs? …
True Deceiver
Av Tove Jansson
Häftad, 2009
137 kr
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In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? In this portrayal of two women grappling …
Travelling Light
Av Tove Jansson
Häftad, 2010
134 kr
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This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into …
Dangerous Journey
Av Tove Jansson
Inbunden, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
170 kr
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A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps, spluttering volcanoes and sea where birds fly upside down and wild things threaten to pounce. But she is not alone. Old friends from Moomin Valley - Hemulen, …
Contact
From the Booker-longlisted author of One Boat
Häftad, 2010
144 kr
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Dominic Pattison's life is one of level contentment: his marriage has proved happy and durable; his business, too, is successful.And then Sam Williams, a builder and ex-squaddie, enters his life. Sam claims to be his son.Yet is Sam who he says he is? After almost thirty years, Dominic can remember …
Telescope
Häftad, 2011
130 kr
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Daniel Brennan, approaching the premature end of his life, retreats to a room in his brother's suburban house. To divert himself and to entertain Ellen, his carer, he writes the journal that is Telescope, blurring truth, gossip and fiction in vignettes of his own life and the lives of those close …
Border Run
Av Simon Lewis
Häftad, 2012
117 kr
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Bored of the 'mango smoothie' trail and keen to spice up their Facebook albums, and perhaps also their sex lives, Jake and Will take a tour into China's jungle borderland with Burma. Their guide, however, has his own agenda and gradually the two gap-year students slip into a nightmarish spiral of …
Nostalgia
From the Booker-longlisted author of One Boat
Inbunden, 2013
185 kr
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The small Tuscan town of Castelluccio is preparing for its annual festival, a spectacular pageant in which a leading role will be taken by the self-exiled English painter Gideon Westfall. A man proudly out of step with modernity, Westfall is regarded by some as a maestro, but in Castelluccio - as …
