She interviews authors and writes features and columns for newspapers including the i paper, the FT, and most of the others. That, and reading quite a lot considering she should probably be doing something else. She specialises in not specialising in anything at all.

Republished in The Winter Book, Sort of Books, 2006Ĭhosen by Susie Mesure. Somehow, especially now, I feel we are all that little girl, standing on the edge of the shore, berating herself for not being brave enough to jump aboard and sail away on a floating island.įirst published in Bildhuggarens dotter (Sculptor’s Daughter), 1968. In just four pages, Jansson weaves a magical, miniature tale of adventure and hope and the harsh realities of life. The iceberg had floated into the bay, all green and white and sparkling, and very early for the time of year. None more so than the narrator of ‘The Iceberg’, a little girl whose family has just moved to the country, who creeps out of their house in the dark of the night to spy on her iceberg, with its oval-shaped, girl-sized grotto on one side. I've tried to put them by series.Tove Jansson’s much-loved Moomins hibernate all winter but the characters in A Winter Book, a collection of the Finnish polymath’s selected stories, are very much awake. And so here is a list of the books published. Finnish people remain very proud of Tove Jansson. 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. Full disclosure here, the Moomins give me the wig.

A winter book by tove jansson