A nimble novel in which a postgrad working on Virginia Woolf finds her life and work turning into a sort of Möbius strip. Funny, sharp, engagingly odd.
A nimble novel in which a postgrad working on Virginia Woolf finds her life and work turning into a sort of Möbius strip. Funny, sharp, engagingly odd.
Jamie has just been named 'the Makar' - Scotland's poet laureate and you can see why in this essay collection: her quiet sentences are so polished they almost glisten. Whether she's windswep... read more
KJ is perhaps best known as a poet, but her previous two essay collections - Findings and Sightlines - are absolutely wonderful too. Rooted in Scotland and the natural word, she is always th... read more
A spare and engaging chronicle of the summers spent in a small cabin on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland with her partner, who did the illustrations.
Lovely edition that includes some colour illustrations by Tove as well as the line drawings we are used to - the only colour ones she ever did, in fact, which were commissioned in 1961 for t... read more
The stories in this collection were published 1968-1998, during the last thiry years of so of Jansson's life when she concentrated on adult fiction rather than her childrens' books. Most are... read more
A brand new version of a lost classic, in rhyme, and with Jansson's original illustrations: a little girl is transported to another world with the help of magic glasses (7-10)