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A Winter Book - Selected stories by Tove Jansson
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Following 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 age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Special Slipcase Edition) by Lewis Carroll, Tove Jansson (illustrator)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Children's Books / Illustration
There's nothing quite like "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Described by "The Times" on its first publication in 1865 as 'an excellent piece of nonsense', this inspired tale of a young girl's adventures in a strange and magical world has gone on to become one of the most popular books ever written, t ...Show more
Art in Nature: and Other Stories by Tove Jansson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a 'new' Tove Jansson, published for the first time in English. Tales of obsession and ambition are revealed and sparkle 'like buried treasure'. An elderly caretaker at a large outdoor exhibition, called Art in Nature, finds that a couple have lingered on to bicker about the value of a picture; h ...Show more
Christmas Comes to Moominvalley by Alex Haridi, Cecilia Davidsson, Tove Jansson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books / Illustration | Series: Moomins
A beautiful and classic picture book, debossed and foiled, the paperback edition of Christmas Comes to Moominvalley is the perfect gift for Moomin fans of all ages. This is an exquisitely illustrated and authentic re-telling of Tove Jansson's classic story The Fir Tree, in which the Moomins are woken up ...Show more
Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson
$20.00 AUD
Category: Children's Books / Illustration | Series: Moomins
A comet is speeding towards Earth and nobody in Moominvalley knows what to do! Will it destroy everything and everyone? Moomintroll decides to find out. So, with Sniff, he sets off on an expedition to ask the Professor if a comet is really on its way to destroy the Earth. On their journey they meet som ...Show more
Fair Play: A Novel by Tove Jansson
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
What mattered most to Tove Jansson, she explained in her eighties, was work and love, a sentiment she echoes in this tender and original novel. Translated for the first time into English, "Fair Play" portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsink ...Show more
Finn Family Moomintroll (HB) by Tove Jansson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Moomins
Finn Family Moomintroll is the best-loved book in the cult classic Moomin series by Tove Jansson. A must-read for both children and adults. Poor little chap! He had been turned into a very strange animal indeed . . . Although they're small, fat and shy creatures, Moomins have the most amazing adventur ...Show more
Letters From Klara by Tove Jansson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The rich seam that is Jansson's adult prose continues with this penultimate collection of short stories, written in her seventies at the height of her Moomin fame and translated into English for the first time. In these light-footed, beautifully crafted yet disquieting stories, Jansson tells of discomfi ...Show more
Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson; Boel Westin (Editor); Helen Svensson (Editor); Sarah Death (Translator)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"I find myself talking to you about all the great joys, all the agonies, all my thoughts..." - Letter to Eva Konikova, 1946 Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, male and female. Into these she spille ...Show more
Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Moomins
'This is snow,' Moomintroll whispered to himself.Moomins always sleep through the winter - or they did until the year Moomintroll woke up and went exploring in the silent, snow-covered valley where the river used to scuttle along.
Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Moomins Collectors' Editions
Moominpappa is feeling at a loss. He has no idea what to do with himself - it seems everything has already been done So he takes his family off to start a new life in a lighthouse on a tiny, rocky island far out to sea. It's rather lonely at first, but it isn't long before the Moomins discover some funn ...Show more
Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Moomins Collectors' Editions
When a grumbling volcano causes Moominvalley to flood, the Moomins escape by boat, finding refuge on a floating theatre. Adventures abound when the theatre casts adrift leaving Moomin,The Snorkmaiden and Little My marooned. Will they all be reunited before the final curtain?