And so here is a list of the books published. 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. Finnish people remain very proud of Tove Jansson. A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson Translated from the Swedish by Kingsley Hart, Silvester Mazzarella and David McDuff. But they are truly beloved by people all over the world. I remember as a child not feeling very sure about these beloved characters. I blame it on the late 1970s programme of The Moomins which was shown on terrestrial channels. Whatever your mood and literary appetite, here are a few of the best fiction and non-fiction winter books to get you thinking about winter reading plans, from classic novels to fantasy stories… The best books to read in winter (with a blanket and hot chocolate) 1.Full disclosure here, the Moomins give me the wig. At other times, a wholesome or mood-boosting novel is a welcome antidote to the chilly weather outside. Sometimes a long book – with a hefty list of characters and an inner universe that’s hard to leave – is the ideal companion to while away the hours with. On this list, I’ve included a few of my favourite cozy books set in winter to retreat into.

What makes for good winter reading? In an article for The Guardian back in 2011, the booksellers Waterstones asked authors, “What’s your favourite fireside read, the book you go back to every winter?”Īli Smith chose Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book (“a piece of light: what better to keep you warm through the darker months?”), Jonathan Coe selected Sherlock Holmes – one of my own choices in this post – while Jacqueline Wilson chose Jane Eyre as a winter classic.įor me, it’s all to do with what goes with hot drinks, warm blankets, and a comfy sofa. With lazier days and more time indoors to escape the cold, winter comes with the distinctive benefit of having more time to spend with a good book. The book has been read but remains in clean condition.

A Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Janssons first book for adults, The Sculptors Daughter (1968) plus seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.

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